Flèche
Book - 2019
Much like the fencer who must constantly negotiate her stance towards her opponent, this debut collection from Mary Jean Chan deftly examines relationships at once conflictual and tender. Themes of queerness, post-colonialism, language, psychoanalysis and cultural history emerge throughout the book by means of a personal, maternal and national biography, conveyed by a polyphony of female voices. The result is a series of poems that feel urgent and hard-hitting as Chan constantly keeps her readers on their toes, dazzling and devastating by turn.
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- Subjects
- Genres
- Poetry
- Published
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London :
Faber & Faber
2019.
- Language
- English
- Main Author
- Physical Description
- 78 pages ; 21 cm
- ISBN
- 9780571348046
- My mothers fables
- Wet nurse
- Always
- Dress
- Practice
- A hurry of English
- Rules for a Chinese child buying stationery in a London bookshop
- Magnolias
- Flesh
- To the grandmother who mistook me for a boy
- Safe space (I)
- Conversation with Fantasy Mother
- A wild patience has taken me this far
- The five stages
- The heart of the matter
- The window
- What my mother (a poet) might say (I)
- The calligrapher
- At the Castro
- Names (I)
- They would have all that
- The horse and the monkey
- 11
- Notes towards an understanding
- Versions from the twenty-four Filial Expemplars
- Written in a historically white space (I)
- This grammatical offer of uniqueness is untrue
- Safe space (II)
- Rise and shine
- Long distance
- Splitting
- An ode to boundaries
- Let them know
- (Auto)biography
- Flèche
- Sorry
- Vigilance
- Beauty
- Song
- Names
- Wish
- Dragon Hill Spa
- Written in a historically white space (II)
- The importance of tea
- Speaking in tongues
- One breath
- Safe space (III)
- An eternal
- Tea ceremony
- What my mother (a poet) might say (II).