"These spare poems are haunted. With a blown-up heart, Maw Shein Win writes about possessions and flashes that hark back like ghosts to our before’s. In Storage Unit for the Spirit House prisons, tombs, portals, bottles, storage units are memorials. I would call these poems luminous and gorgeously darkly-edged, bellowing as they do with the knowledge that we never truly depart from all of our departed things."
—Ingrid Rojas Contreras, author of Fruit of the Drunken Tree

"This piercing, gorgeous collection stands both inside and outside of containment: the porcelain vase of stargazer lilies is considered alongside the galley convicts, the children sleeping on the cement floors of detention cells, the nats inside their spirit houses; the spirit houses inside their storage units. … These poems are portals to other worlds and to our own, a space in which one sees and one is seen. A marvelous, timely and resilient book."
—D.A. Powell, author of Repast: Tea, Lunch, and Cocktails