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Finalist for the 2024 Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian PoetryAn autohistoriography of felt time that arises from subversive hearing practices and the emotional prosody of a mother tongue one does not understand but activates in another poetic language.Comprised of three long poems, Teeter knows experimental forms can be as intimate as mothering; knows we can understand languages we do not speak. From Hearing s intensities of attention, to Ambient Mom s familial Filipino immigrant soundscapes, to Histories s careful scrutiny of the socially-sanctioned narratives and trajectories to which we are meant to aspire, Teeter s lessons in listening reverberate across career retrospectives and heritage languages, colonial histories and domestic intimacies, reattuning us to what we ve neglected to notice in our efforts to create a life we can understand.