Besiege me
By: Nicholas Wong
Publisher: Noemi Press
Published: 2021
Place of publication: Blacksburg, Virginia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 73
ISBN-13: 9781934819944
Copyright date: 2021
Subjects: Poetry
Description: A new collection six years after Nicholas Wong won the Lambda Literary Award for Gay Poetry, BESIEGE ME opens with a timely mocking tone that confronts the tension between China and Hong Kong. Poems in the book speak queerly of urban existences crushed by political and economic powers --"What cities & bodies deny a sometime-crisis, / not knowing they're a series of which?" Behind the portrayals of the speaker, his parents, his home city, and domestic migrant workers there, the collection boldly outlines the vulnerability of entrapment and its masochistic pleasures. BESIEGE ME seeks for a redefinition of transcultural poetics with its linguistic playfulness. --from Amazon.