num_pages: 108
description: As with his earlier collections, Cyril Wong continues to document the contradictions and frustrations of a common existence with unwavering courage. Language, art, religion, death, and love all come under the poet's unflinching gaze. This country has never known a more lyrical and emotionally charged poetic voice."Cyril Wong's poems, clear as water, open our way for wonderful and strange journeys through known and unknown places, places where we feel sure of nothing yet dead sure of everything."- Clarence Major, author of Configurations: New &amp; Selected Poems 1958-1998"The poems in Cyril Wong's collection are indeed seeds - each one starts something vibrant and new growing in the world. And though he may write of disaster, it is with triumph; though he may look into the darkest corners, he finds a light there that he brings back to fill his poems, and from there, to fill the reader's mind. These are seeds of light that believe in life - so much so that they can look at it honestly."- Cole Swensen, author of Goest and Such Rich Hour
language: English
title: Like A Seed with its Singular Purpose
titlecomplete: Like A Seed with its Singular Purpose
genres: Poetry, Gay
ratings_count: 60
places: Singapore
publisher: Firstfruits Publications