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“If you had the power to become a lesser version of yourself in order to remain close to your loved one, would you do it? Fox Henry Frazier’s book Weeping in the Tropical Moonlit Night Because Nobody’s Told Her is for any reader who has traded their true self for their self in love. It is for anyone who has ever transmogrified, become smaller, ‘stopped spinning,’ just to stay close. In these poems, a mermaid shapeshifts into a betta fish, watching her new love with fascination from her bowl. What can happen—what does happen— to so many of us, when we make ourselves vulnerable to falling in love? We always ‘plan to shift back into siren’—but do we become ‘pretty, dumb animals,’ instead, when we imagine a version of ourselves that will be loved? And even if we do, would any of us give up the chance to be loved by the one we adore? In its woeful, tender narrative, Weeping in the Tropical Moonlit Night Because Nobody’s Told Her reminds us of what it means to be in pursuit of love—to be undone, set into a river, still wanting.”
—Joan Kwon Glass, author of Night Swim