From the small towns strung along the coast of the Big Island of Hawai‘i to the land-locked landscapes of Paraguay to the volcanic surface of Venus, this collection of poetry is a field guide to flora, fauna, and mineralia encountered, real, and imagined. Jennifer Hasegawa scans across physical and mental planes to reveal their inhabitants. Packed tightly into exploratory rocket segments, these poems ignite our gravest flaws to send our grandest potentials into orbit.

 Hasegawa’s poems not only rearrange our ways of seeing the world, but they also reset the language we use in it. Banzai, with a literal translation of “10,000 years,” was used by the Japanese as a rallying cry in imperialistic and militaristic contexts. Today, the understanding of this word has shifted to a comparatively neutral translation of the enthusiastic expression “Hurrah!” in both in Japan and beyond. In La Chica’s Field Guide to Banzai Living, Hasegawa aims to reclaim banzai, recasting the language of war and unwavering loyalty and forming it into one that stands against aggression and racism and embraces tolerance and self-acceptance. Here banzai becomes a rallying cry not of war but of grand potential. La Chica’s Field Guide to Banzai Living chronicles a celebratory life and poetry filled with wonder.
 

A surreal story in verse that follows a woman facing the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic alongside ecological crisis and crumbling social norms.
 
Jennifer Hasegawa’s NAOMIE ANOMIE: A Biography of Infinite Desire, is an experimental poetic take on biography, growing increasingly surreal as it follows the truths behind its unreliable narrator through paradoxes rendered in luxurious detail. This book is a portrait of a flawed life, a call for attention to the looming ecological crisis, and a lyrical experiment in truth-telling.
 
Feeling ever-increasing existential strain leading up to the COVID-19 pandemic and culminating in her decision to no longer venture outside of her apartment, Naomie is not surprised to find her name is an anagram for anomie, a term for the breakdown of social norms. In these pages is a meticulous account of everything that went wrong in Naomie’s five decades of life. We find retellings of a life’s most significant moments—not because they are sources of pride, but because they stand as the only decipherable moments of humanity amid a world of static. This story in verse acts as a survival guide, romance novel, liberation handbook, pulp thriller, and jokebook for those who will live through ongoing plagues, environmental change, total AI integration, water wars, and cyberattacks and who will come out the other side ready to restart.
 

Poetry tracing the parallel lives of two characters as they grapple with transcendence, selfhood, technology, and desire.

In Silicon Ana: A Quantum Entanglement, two narratives weave across each page: Ana, a stigmatic visionary navigating miraculous healings and supernatural visitations, and Nan, discovering sexuality and selfhood through a found Penthouse magazine. Across seven movements, their stories braid and diverge—hospital beds mirror bedroom paralysis, religious ecstasy meets erotic awakening, strange prophecies echo in both realms. Through tightly wound five-line stanzas, this double helix of consciousness explores possession in all its forms: spiritual, sexual, psychological, and technological. Each stanza creates a chamber where sacred and profane collapse into each other. Written in an era of AI awakening and quantum computing, where consciousness becomes suspect, this collection asks what happens when the experiment becomes self-aware. As Ana ascends toward cosmic transcendence and Nan navigates earthly desire, their entangled fates ask if we are observing one entity being split across an unfathomable divide or two that are bound by invisible threads. Silicon Ana is a fevered meditation on bodies that refuse singular interpretation in an age of infinite possible selves.