Maybe The Body

== Reception ==

== Reception ==

''[[Publishers Weekly]]'' described the collection as "cerebral" and "polyphonic", saying that its poems address assimilation, ambivalent patriotism, and family inheritance.{{cite web |title=Maybe the Body by Asa Drake |url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/9781963108682 |website=Publishers Weekly |date=February 6, 2026 |access-date=April 20, 2026}} A.D. Lauren-Abunassar, reviewing the book for ''Split Lip Magazine'', wrote that it examines how the body is shaped by country, inheritance, and labor, and described it as having a "deeply embedded sense of both narrative and lyric devotion".{{cite web |last=Lauren-Abunassar |first=A.D. |title=After Belonging, or A Few False Starts: On Asa Drake's Maybe the Body |url=https://splitlipthemag.com/reviews/0226/review-of-maybe-the-body |website=Split Lip Magazine |date=February 14, 2026 |access-date=April 20, 2026}} For ''Soapberry Review'', Audrey Fong emphasized the collection's engagement with discomfort and pointed to its treatment of consumerism and citizenship.{{cite web |last=Fong |first=Audrey |title=Discomfort in Maybe the Body: A review of Asa Drake's debut poetry collection |url=https://soapberryreview.com/?p=6250 |website=Soapberry Review |date=February 24, 2026 |access-date=April 20, 2026}} It was also included a ''[[Poetry Northwest]]'' book list, where it was described as attentive to "the daily colonialisms of names and silences" and to the relationship between work and home.{{cite web |last=Staff |title=PoNW's Favorites |url=https://www.poetrynw.org/ponws-favorites-winter-2026/ |website=Poetry Northwest |date=February 19, 2026 |access-date=April 20, 2026}}

''[[Publishers Weekly]]'' described the collection as "cerebral" and "polyphonic", saying that its poems address assimilation, ambivalent patriotism, and family inheritance.{{cite web |title=Maybe the Body by Asa Drake |url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/9781963108682 |website=Publishers Weekly |date=February 6, 2026 |access-date=April 20, 2026}} A.D. Lauren-Abunassar, reviewing the book for ''Split Lip Magazine'', wrote that it examines how the body is shaped by country, inheritance, and labor, and described it as having a "deeply embedded sense of both narrative and lyric devotion".{{cite web |last=Lauren-Abunassar |first=A.D. |title=After Belonging, or A Few False Starts: On Asa Drake's Maybe the Body |url=https://splitlipthemag.com/reviews/0226/review-of-maybe-the-body |website=Split Lip Magazine |date=February 14, 2026 |access-date=April 20, 2026}} For ''Soapberry Review'', Audrey Fong emphasized the collection's engagement with discomfort and pointed to its treatment of consumerism and citizenship.{{cite web |last=Fong |first=Audrey |title=Discomfort in Maybe the Body: A review of Asa Drake's debut poetry collection |url=https://soapberryreview.com/?p=6250 |website=Soapberry Review |date=February 24, 2026 |access-date=April 20, 2026}} It was also included a ''[[Poetry Northwest]]'' book list, where it was described as attentive to "the daily colonialisms of names and silences" and to the relationship between work and home.{{cite web |last=Staff |title=PoNW's Favorites |url=https://www.poetrynw.org/ponws-favorites-winter-2026/ |website=Poetry Northwest |date=February 19, 2026 |access-date=April 20, 2026}}

== References ==

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