This Is How We Come Back
by Cyril Wong
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Year Published: Dec 2024 Pages: 68pp Language: English Retail Price: SGD18 (Singapore) Dimensions: 190mm x 130mm ISBN: 978-981-18-8274-6 (Paperback) Buyer Request: Final PDF Available Publisher/Imprint: Rosetta Cultures Rights Available: World (Exp Singapore) Suggested Categorisation: Prose Poetry, Contemporary Literature, Singapore Literature |
About This Is How We Come Back
One of a pair of lovers slices off his nipple on a dare. Both argue about enlightenment before it becomes too late, after retreating from the hostile world into a cave of wildly carnal fulfilment. Marrying mystical exploration and avant-garde homo-erotica, here is a prose-poem-as-fairy-tale in the modern day about the things few of us in love may see, insights about love and loss which pierce the amnesia of ordinary time.
About Cyril Wong
Cyril Wong is a poet whose works “embrace themes of love, alienation and human relationships of all kinds” (TIME magazine, 28 Nov. 2007). His books include Beachlight (Seagull Books, 2023) and This Side of Heaven (Epigram Books, 2020). A two-time recipient of the Singapore Literature Prize (2006 and 2016) and the National Arts Council’s Young Artist Award for Literature (2005), he completed his doctoral degree in English Literature at the National University of Singapore in 2012. His work was featured in Poems on the Underground in London (2022). His writings have appeared in journals like Poetry International, Poetry New Zealand, Ambit, Atlanta Review, as well as in anthologies by W. W. Norton and Everyman’s Library.