This poem imagines the public library as a space for queer encounters and self-definition. Many of us can attest to how we built our identities through the words of others. It is a rare moment of self-exposure in my book, "Of the Florids," which otherwise takes on other voices in the archives of Singapore’s natural history.
Shawn Hoo on "Precocious" |
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Paisley Rekdal Discusses Her New Book
"I feel more hopeful about the future after West because I think the cyclicality of our national problems—around race, around technology, around nationhood itself—is actually a reflection about how committed we are to solving them. We could see it as a doom cycle, or we could see it as a gesture of commitment....We are, I believe, getting better in the fight, even as we understand that the fight can never truly and totally be won."
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What Sparks Poetry:
Oliver de la Paz on Language as Form
"I started writing pantoums to demarcate section breaks to rectify what I saw as an imbalance in the work. I wanted to place the pantoum, which was originally a Malaysian form, against the sonnet's Western European tradition as a subtle nod to the complications that arise when attempting to adapt to a place." |
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