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๐ Return to First Impressions๐ Return to Cha Review of Books and Films Clickย HERE to readย all entries inย Chaย onย The Sorrows of Others. Ada Zhang, The Sorrows of Others, A Public Space, 2023. 160 pgs. Previously on Cha, Susan Blumberg-Kason reviewed Ada Zhangโs…
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๐ RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONS๐ RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS Click HERE to read all entries in Cha on Owlish. Dorothy Tse (author), Natascha Bruce (translator), Owlish, Fitzcarraldo Editions, 2023. 224 pgs. Iโve always sensed that Hong Kong has a unique way of combining the…
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โ Translator’s Forewordโ Five Poemsโ Short Tongue @ Sea Breeze Books TRANSLATOR’S FOREWORD by Daryl Lim Wei Jie I first encountered the poetry of Wang Mun Kiat ้ปๆๆฐ when I translated some of his poems for a special issue of…
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โ Translator’s Forewordโ Five Poemsโ Short Tongue @ Sea Breeze Books MODERN BOOK OF REVELATION: SMARTPHONE by Wang Mun Kiat, translated from the Chinese into English by Daryl Lim Wei Jie Looking down:the most talkativemutes Looking up:the loneliestchatterboxes . ็ฐไปฃๅฏ็คบๅฝ๏ผๆบ่ฝๆๆบ…
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๐ Return to First Impressions๐ Return to Cha Review of Books and Films Click HERE to read all entries in Cha on The Sorrows of Others. Ada Zhang, The Sorrows of Others, A Public Space, 2023. 160 pgs. Empathy. Itโs a simple word and one…
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๐ Return to First Impressions๐ Return to Cha Review of Books and Films Bแบฃo Ninh (author), Quan Manh Ha and Cab Tran (translators and editors), Hร Nแปi at Midnight: Stories, with a foreword by Nguyแป n Vฤn Thuแบฅn, Texas Tech University…
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๐ Return to First Impressions๐ Return to Cha Review of Books and Films Tim Tim Cheng, Tapping at Glass, Verve Poetry Press, 2023. 44 pgs. History, of course, repeats itself. What was termed โThe Lost Generationโ by Gertrude Stein, to…
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่ถ FIRST IMPRESSIONS ่ถ REVIEW OF BOOKS & FILMS [REVIEW] “Outstanding Translations of a Singular Poet: Yam Gong’s Moving a Stone” by Mary King Bradley and Matthew Cheng Yam Gong (author), James Shea and Dorothy Tse (translators), Moving a Stone,…
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๐ Return to First Impressions๐ Return to Cha Review of Books and Films Shirley Geok-lin Lim, In Praise of Limes, Sungold Editions, 2022. 106 pgs. In this review of Shirley Geok-lin Limโs In Praise of Limes, I attempt a process which…
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๐ Return to First Impressions๐ Return to Cha Review of Books and Films Rin Ishigaki (author), Janine Beichman (translator), and Paul Rossiter (editor), This Overflowing Light: Selected Poems, with an introduction by Janine Beichman, Isobar Press, 2022. 118 pgs. When…
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