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The Scribe’s Confession

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Maxim Amelin
2019
Published by: The Chinese University of Hong Kong Press
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This pocket-sized paperback is one of the thirty titles published for 2019 Hong Kong International Poetry Nights. The theme of IPHHK2019 is Speech and Silence. From 19–24 November 2019, 30 invited poets from various countries will be in Hong Kong to read their works based on the theme Speech and Silence. Included in the anthology and box set, these unique works are presented with Chinese and English translations in bilingual or trilingual formats.

Table of Contents

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Title Page, Copyright

pp. 1-4

Contents

pp. 5-7

“Cyclopean language consists of consonants”

pp. 8-10

“Let’s hurry”

pp. 11-16

“An old photographer wanders, aluminum”

pp. 17-19

“Long now you’ve lounged in earth”

pp. 20-25

“I wish I owned my own home”

pp. 26-31

The Statue of Silenus in the Capitoline Museum

pp. 32-37

“The hulking carcass of a dead orca”

pp. 38-43

“Rising at morning from my graveside”

pp. 44-47

"Temple with an Arcade"

pp. 48-53

“Each and every day, save weekends and holidays”

pp. 54-62

The Scribe’s Confession

pp. 63-68

“Satiety prevails, not taste”

pp. 69-71

About the Author

pp. 72-74
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