Saying Your Name Three Times
Underwater 

by Sam Roxas-Chua 姚

Paperback
978-1946-583-000
$17.00/ Poetry
Fall 2017

Praise for Saying Your Name Three Times Underwater:

"Sam Roxas-Chua 姚’s poetry is swirling and galactic, vividly sensual, and delightfully stubborn in its refusal to entertain simple answers to queries of blood, faith, and desire. Surreal yet rooted in palpable color and history, this poet’s vision transcends oceans, blends geographies and bleeds a multi-tongued heritage for us to better find ourselves. We need more maps like this in the world, and cartographers of language like Sam Roxas Chua 姚." —Tyehimba Jess, Winner of the 2017 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry

"Sam Roxas-Chua 姚 is a natural. He is an exciting and original poet of profound imagination that can lift off from any situation…an artist through and through." —Marvin Bell, author ofNightworks

"Every now and then a unique, distinctive voice will appear on the literary scene, as if from out of nowhere. Such is the case with Sam Roxas-Chua 姚. His mysterious poems teem with apparitions of the marvelous, as if we have entered some other dimension. His imagination is haunted by family and the primal scene, with ancestral spirits from China and the Philippines. Here are poems that push the boundaries of language, that shimmer with almost a mythic or visionary quality, poems that encounter what he calls “luminous questions.” There is such a richness and amplitude in his work. The poems in Saying Your Name Three Times Underwater will take you on a journey to where you have never been before." —Joseph Stroud, winner of the Lannan Foundation Lifetime Achievement Award