Resemblance/與 by Jonathan Chou is a spare, lyrical, and beautiful refraction of memory, again and again, while exploring the 2/28 Incident and White Terror period in Taiwan’s history. Chou’s collection seems to understand that memory isn’t about remembering, but about standing in place, as Browning once said of the lyric poet, who “digs where he stands.” Resemblance/與 seems to say, “Finally we stopped / looking for a way out,” instead preferring to unravel in place.

—Victoria Chang, author of OBIT and With My Back to the World