Chapbook

A Thousand Smiles, Goodbye Poems, Essays, and Other Things by Deshana Cabasan

There are people we loved so completely that leaving them — or being left — required we learn an entirely new language. This chapbook is written in that language.

A Thousand Smiles, Goodbye moves through grief and memory, through the small ceremonies of departure we perform without knowing, through the weight of what stays with us long after someone has gone. It is a collection about love not as arrival but as aftermath — what it leaves behind, what it asks of us, what we carry forward into every room we enter alone.

Poems, essays, and other things. All of it true.

Available April 6. Pre-order your copy below — digital and print editions available.