MFA alum Rebecca Suzuki’s award-winning chapbook, When My Mother Is Most Beautiful, is listed as number four on Small Press Distribution’s Poetry Bestsellers!

When My Mother Is Most Beautiful is the most recent winner of the Loose Translations Award from Hanging Loose Press, which publishes a work of translation from a Queens College MFA student each year. Partnering on this award with this respected independent press celebrates what our program is all about: Language. Culture. Community. We have built not just our translation track, but our entire program on these pillars.

When My Mother Is Most Beautiful is at once a powerful love letter to a mother and to language itself, delving into complex questions of family, communication, culture, and connection. These poems chronicle the difficult art of navigating multiple cultural identities, examining how languages twist and morph across cultures through the imperfect act of translation, how they bind people together and keep them apart, and even how they could be reimagined to make a better world.

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https://www.hangingloosepress.com/book/when-my-mother-is-most-beautiful/