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- Things We Lost in the Fire
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- 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
- Confessions
- pp. 10-11
- “Where does depression take you?”
- pp. 12-13
- The Delicate Acts of Survival
- pp. 14-19
- “how quiet can we make this woman?”
- pp. 20-21
- “Tell me, at night”
- pp. 22-23
- “Nne’m, my mother”
- pp. 24-25
- “A God as woman as me”
- pp. 28-29
- “Remember”
- pp. 34-35
- Conversations with Broken Girls
- pp. 38-41
- “twice broken”
- pp. 42-43
- “The woman”
- pp. 44-45
- “Nobody warned you”
- pp. 46-47
- “Your son does not know”
- pp. 48-49
- “Bless the daughters who sat”
- pp. 54-55
- “Your mother was your first mirror”
- pp. 56-57
- Five Languages
- pp. 60-63
- Yellow Fever
- pp. 68-69
- Things We Lost in the Fire
- pp. 78-79
- About the Author
- pp. 80-82
Additional Information
ISBN
9789882378377
Related ISBN(s)
9789882371613
MARC Record
OCLC
1146231088
Pages
82
Launched on MUSE
2020-03-28
Language
English
Open Access
No
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