Vanessa Huang’s first book of poems bears witness toan intimate terrain traversing pasts, presents, and futureswithin and surrounding political movements to end variousembodiments of the prison industrial complex in the2000s, California and beyond. Making refuge in diaspora,the poems in quiet of chorus inhabit and transform the poet’slanguages of heritage and migration into their own call-andresponsesyntax, inviting readers and listeners into prayer,pause, novel gesture towards freedom.