Common Grace cid_5126 from late adolescence to middle

from late adolescence to middle age

Not only do they feel pressured to seem perfect and youthful

Audre Lourde

Through the lens of the Caribbean

Common Grace cid_5126 from late adolescence to middleIn 65 lyric poems organized into a triptych, Common Grace offers an important new lens into Asian American life, art, and love. Part 1, Soul Sauce, describes the poets life as a practicing visual artist, taking us from an early encounter with an inkwell at Roseland Elementary in 1969 to his professional outdoor easel perched on Long Island Sound. Part 2, Ubasute, is named after the mythical Japanese practice wherein a grown son lifts his aged mother