"echolalia echolalia is a collection of poems that constantly twists and strives toward a shifting light. It tends to structure in a way that is at times particular and reassuring, and at other times a fascinating and feral reordering of voice and vision. Shi writes like a pretty splinter in your soft flesh: her poems are sharp, urging your attention, lingering as a sweet ache that your body remembers even when the sliver is gone."—from the jurors of the Raymond Souster Award

"In this electric, eclectic collection, Jane Shi weaves, ducks, swerves, and composes poems like an acrobat swinging across the distance of time. The book is a virtuosic feat in bending away from, twirling, curling, unfurling from the left margin with lines that electrify. Shi is a poet unlike anyone else, and I welcome any extended stay in their worlds."—Diana Khoi Nguyen, author of Root Fractures and Ghost Of

"From the tender to the absurd, the poems in this book lovingly agitate and stretch us towards a world that resounds with precise, tenacious life. From mushrooms failing to forget to unabashed magnolias to ancestral humour in contemporary times, echolalia echolalia reorganizes our neural networks and our communities towards living in 'quantum entanglement.' Curiosity and compassion sprout up in the channels and chambers that Shi opens up with rigor and generosity."—Rita Wong, author of forage and monkeypuzzle

"Jane Shi's echolalia echolalia is a gorgeous, sticky griefsong to the body, soaked in loss and nostalgia. These unruly, precise poems sting with rage and betrayal. They usher us through cycles of crisis and childhood, innocence and illusion, while offering us powerful portraits of life-anchoring friendship and community care. These poems twist in form and shape and voice; they are dexterous and intimate. I never knew how much I needed these anti-anthems. They shook me awake."—Maneo Mohale, author of Everything is a Deathly Flower

"echolalia echolalia left me in a state of wonder. Who are we in relation to our echoes and those who we echo? In an exuberant debut, Shi searches for definition and distinction alongside a desire to be connected and multitudinous, asking 'how do you say help me in yr language.' Shi extends her poetics in all directions with silky skill. Language flourishes in the realm of a poet like this."—T. Liem, author of Slows: Twice and Obits.

"An anthem for the chronically ill and chronically online, echolalia echolalia sings with the complicated queer love we need to keep other alive. These poems are tricksters of form that play rough with colonial grammar, guided by a keen eye for satire that never loses sight of the urgency for marginalized kin to survive on our own terms."—Rebecca Salazar, author of sulphurtongue

"Defying one-dimensional stereotypes, Shi's speaker is funny, stubborn, empathetic, opinionated, and—perhaps most excitingly—isn’t focused on justifying herself to a white neurotypical readership. Poems honour friends, ancestors, and other writers and artists, returning to themes of identity and history, found and lost family, disability and mad kinship, and ruptures and recombinations of languages and selfhoods. While struck through with grief, the collection reads as an ode to community and an incantation for interdependent survival."—Madelaine Caritas Longman, PRISM international

"echolalia echolalia is a compelling debut collection with a voice that is distinct, versatile, and resilient on every page. Shi's articulation and reworking of language guides the reader through a series of narratives that explore queerness, disability, and intergenerational trauma. In these pages Shi eclipses the idea of a rigid, structured form and instead offers poems shaped to the likeness of a cuttlefish: a creature continuously altering and transforming itself to survive in its surroundings."—Rachel Lawka, The Ampersand Review

Jane Shi lives on the occupied, stolen, and unceded territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh nations. Her writing has appeared in the Disability Visibility Blog, Briarpatch Magazine, The Offing, and Queer Little Nightmares: An Anthology of Monstrous Fiction and Poetry (Arsenal Pulp Press), among others. Jane is an alumnus of Tin House Summer Workshop, The Writer's Studio Online at Simon Fraser University, and StoryStudio Chicago. She is the winner of The Capilano Review's 2022 In(ter)ventions in the Archive Contest and the author of the chapbook Leaving Chang'e on Read (Rahila's Ghost Press, 2022). She wants to live in a world where love is not a limited resource, land is not mined, hearts are not filched, and bodies are not violated.