it answers to my name

samari zysk's haunting debut, it answers to my name, is an autobiographical collection of poetry that explores the boundary between language and identity. is it possible to love a language, despite its inability to hold all of you? a language that was not made for survival- for those who live on the margins?

it answers to my name is not just a coming-out, but a coming home. samari reminds us "in this story, words are wounds, entry points." these wounds are a howl of joy, of anger, of freedom, of grief. it answers to my name chronicals lived-through unrealities. what we encounter here is not real, perhaps even impossible, but it is the truth.

and it will answer.