‘A truly breathtaking and disarming collection of poetry, a remarkably accomplished debut. Eliza Dune Daiza traverses the complexities and delicacies of identity, belonging and existence, with language at once tender and strong, present and wistful, evocative and visually arresting. This will take you places you didn’t know you needed to go.’

— JESSICA RASCHKE
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In language that shuttles between intimacy and irony, Haibun Nation & Other States dwells on notions of loss, enmeshment and surrender through variants of the haibun, tanka, villanelle, and other poetic forms. Structured in two parts, this debut collection begins with twelve haibun, weaving decay and betrayal with disquieting disclosures of illness, endings and guileless hope. The work continues with evocations of the faraway — journeying across emotional and geographical distances, encountering dislocation, ecological calamity, fragile memory and tenderness amidst the inevitable heartache of grief. Through exploring experiences of family deaths and diaspora, Eliza Dune Daiza seeks to capture the continuous emergence of a reflexive interior self, infusing poetic inquiry with expressions of the gothic, the metaphysical and the sensual.