Through elegant poetry, full of exquisite imagery and detail, Quan Lee describes her personal, transformative journey in which she explores how race, class, gender, and sexual identity inform who she is.

"an intimate journey of self-reflection...sensitive, sincere, and skillful"
--Sherry Quan Lee, author of "Chinese Blackbird"
About the Author
Nick Purdon was born in 1976 in East London in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa. After a few moves around the country, his family settled in the Western Cape city of Cape Town in 1981 where he has lived since. Nick began writing poetry seriously at the age of 27, though he had been writing on-and-off since his teenage years.
About the Chapbook
The Road-Shaped Heart is the poetic journey of a man winding his way through a...