Oaxaca for sushi (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798264589775)

Oaxaca for Sushi is a collection of poems about finding something unexpectedly good where you'd never think to look. Set against the backdrop of beaches, alleyways, and quiet kitchens, these pieces trace the beauty and strangeness of resilience: the way joy can surface in grief, how love takes shape in silence, and how ordinary objects-shoes, fruit, smoke, a stray song on the radio-become markers of survival and hope.

The poems lean into contrasts: strength and vulnerability, tenderness and fear, beginnings that feel like endings. They ask what it means to stay open to the world even when it feels easier to retreat. With a voice that is direct and quietly poetic, the collection does not rush to provide answers. Instead, it holds space for ambivalence, uncertainty, and the small triumphs of being alive.

Influenced by the clarity of Mary Oliver, the brevity of Rupi Kaur, and the music of early 2000s indie and emo culture, Oaxaca for Sushi speaks in a language of memory, humor, and raw honesty. Each poem is a fragment of searching-sometimes sharp, sometimes soft, always human.

This is a book about noticing. About realizing that what we find most valuable often arrives in the least expected forms, like sushi in Oaxaca: unlikely, imperfect, but surprisingly nonetheless.