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Crevasse
Contributor(s): Wong, Nicholas (Author)
ISBN: 1885030207     ISBN-13: 9781885030207
Publisher: Kaya Press
OUR PRICE:   $14.36  
Product Type: Paperback
Published: May 2015
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Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Poetry | Asian - General
Dewey: 895
LCCN: 2015002901
Physical Information: 0.4" H x 5.8" W x 7.6" (0.25 lbs) 80 pages
Themes:
- Cultural Region - Asian
 
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Publisher Description:
Crevasse, Hong Kong-based writer Nicholas Wong's newest collection of poetry, which won the 2016 Lamda Literary Award, starts with an epigraph from Maurice Merleau-Ponty that notes the impossibility of observing one's own physical body and, therefore, the necessity of a "second," "unobservable" body from which to view one's own. The poems in Crevasse seek to uncover the thread connecting these mutually observed and observing bodies. Like Samuel Beckett and others before him, Wong has deliberately chosen to write in a non-native language--English, his second language after Cantonese. Freed from the assumptions and conventions of his mother tongue, Wong strips down, interrogates and ultimately reorients the fragmented complexities of the multiple communities he inhabits--queer, Asian, poet, reader, lover--in a collection of poems that exposes the gap between familiarity and the inevitable distance of the body.