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WINNER OF THE COSTA POETRY AWARD
POETRY BOOK SOCIETY RECOMMENDATION

Flèche (the French word for ‘arrow’) is an offensive technique commonly used in fencing, a sport of Mary Jean Chan’s young adult years, when they competed locally and internationally for their home city, Hong Kong. This cross-linguistic pun presents the queer, non-white body as both vulnerable (‘flesh’) and weaponised (‘flèche’), and evokes the difficulties of reconciling one’s need for safety alongside the desire to shed one’s protective armour in order to fully embrace the world.

Central to the collection is the figure of the poet’s mother, whose fragmented memories of political turmoil in twentieth-century China are sensitively threaded through the book in an eight-part poetic sequence, combined with recollections from Chan’s childhood. As complex themes of multilingualism, queerness, psychoanalysis and cultural history emerge, so too does a richly imagined personal, maternal and national biography. The result is a series of poems that feel urgent and true, dazzling and devastating by turns.

Product detaljer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
88
ISBN-13:
9780571348046
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
0571348041
Udg. Dato:
4 jul 2019
Længde:
8mm
Bredde:
157mm
Højde:
204mm
Forlag:
Faber & Faber
Oplagsdato:
4 jul 2019
Forfatter(e):
Books from the same author
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