Witness Back at Me: Mis-Mothering & Transmigration - Couverture souple

Chan, Weyman

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1772014419 ISBN 13 : 9781772014419

Editeur : Talon Books,Canada, 2023

Synopsis

In Witness Back at Me, Weyman Chan continues to explore themes of dislocation and belonging by drawing on biography, myth, science, and the everyday. Chan's poetry is suffused with a collage-like immersion of stream-of-conscious voices, approximating the kaleidoscopic effect of interior thought.

Witness Back at Me draws on the childhood loss of Chan's mother to breast cancer, as a survival mechanism towards an aesthetics of accepted disembodiment, always haunted by a search for nurturing and surrender to some greater being. The poems in this book intertwine polyvocally, building into a liminal biographical metanarrative: the whole point of existence, the author believes, is to luxuriate in the greater being of not-knowing. To accept the historical underpinnings, the brokenness of the world, inside and outside the self, but be in constant communication of both worlds, towards understanding and healing, is the one true meaningful quest.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Weyman Chan was born in Calgary in 1963, to immigrant parents from China. He has published poems and short stories in a wide variety of literary journals and anthologies. He won the 2002 National Magazine Awards silver prize for his poem "At Work," and the 2003 Alberta Book Award for his first book of poetry, Before a Blue Sky Moon. His second book, Noise from the Laundry, was a finalist for the 2008 Governor General's Award for Poetry and the 2009 Acorn-Plantos Award for People's Poetry.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Talon Books,Canada
• Date d'édition: 2023
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1772014419
• ISBN 13: 9781772014419
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 112
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• Personne responsable: non disponible