Decapitated PoetryPoems from a boisterously out and open queer voice from Taiwan. Ko hua Chens Decapitated Poetry was the first explicitly queer book of poems published in Taiwan and remains a foundational work in Taiwanese poetry. Decades after it first appeared in 1995, this collection retains the capacity to shock, appall, and jolt readers into recognizing homosexuality as its own specific category of being. Behind Chens depictions of the disjunctive realities of