{"product_id":"mix-mix-paperback-1","title":"Mix-Mix - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eDani Putney\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eMix-Mix, \u003c\/i\u003eDani Putney excavates facets of their mixed-race heritage using reformulated text from the \"Asian Romance Guide to Marriage by Correspondence\" to consider their relationships with their Filipina mother and late white father\u003c\/b\u003e, problematizing--but also attempting to understand--the circumstances that led to their parents' marriage across two continents via mail correspondence. In addition, the collection puts queerness and non-binary identity into conversation with heritage, invocations of pop-culture icons, reflections on the speaker's daddy issues, and general explorations of queer sexuality. In \u003ci\u003eMix-Mix\u003c\/i\u003e Putney seems to ask, \"Why were we born? How do we live with the circumstances of our birth, both historically and culturally?\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDani Putney\u003c\/b\u003e is a queer, non-binary, mixed-race Filipinx, and neurodivergent writer originally from Sacramento, California. Their debut full-length collection, \u003ci\u003eSalamat sa Intersectionality\u003c\/i\u003e (Okay Donkey Press, 2021), was a finalist for the 2022 Lambda Literary Award in Transgender Poetry. They are also the author of the poetry chapbook \u003ci\u003eDela Torre\u003c\/i\u003e (Sundress Publications, 2022) and the creative nonfiction chapbook \u003ci\u003eSwallow Whole\u003c\/i\u003e (Bullshit Press, 2023). Their poetry appears in outlets such as \u003ci\u003eBennington Review, Cream City Review, Grist, Hayden's Ferry Review\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003ePuerto del Sol\u003c\/i\u003e, among others, while their personal essays can be found in journals such as \u003ci\u003eCrab Creek Review, Glassworks Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eQuarterly West\u003c\/i\u003e, among others. They received their PhD in English from Oklahoma State University and their MFA in Creative Writing from Mississippi University for Women. \u003ci\u003eMix-Mix \u003c\/i\u003eis their second full-length poetry collection. They live in Reno, Nevada.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 97\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.4 x 8.9 x 5.9 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 08, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47353645760761,"sku":"9781936097562","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/Ule-mBNkqE9781936097562_1c6fbd11-f140-44e6-b2c3-d77e22a152c3.webp?v=1769825557","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/mix-mix-paperback-1","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}