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My Mother Has Two Ways of Giving Permission

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An Asian-American woman with long, straight, black hair and brown eyes. She rests her cheek on her right hand, and wears a coral, collared shirt

Asa Drake

is the author of Maybe the Body (Tin House, 2026) and Beauty Talk (Noemi Press, 2026), winner of the 2024 Noemi Press Book Award. Her poems are published or forthcoming in the American Poetry Review, Georgia Review and Poetry.

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