T. Liem
Slows: Twice
Slows: Twice
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Slows: Twice is a double book of mirrored poems about identity in all its forms, exploring themes of work, labor, consumption, family, and home. It is a resistance to efficiency and being an always-productive body under capitalism, using repetition, sequencing, and mirroring to construct selves and reveal relationships to time, noise, and duration. The book is praised for its mischievous relation to form and expectation, burning intelligence, and innovative use of language.
Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 96 pages
Publication date: 22 June 2023
Publisher: Coach House Books
SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2023 A.M. KLEIN PRIZE FOR POETRY
CBC BOOKS CANADIAN POETRY COLLECTIONS TO WATCH FOR IN SPRING 2023
Backward and forward: a double book of mirrored poems about identity in all its forms.
This is a book of slow hours, days, and years – how they can collapse into one another, how it can feel like we are living one day repeating itself. From within this collapse, the speaker seeks connection everywhere. They visit their fathers birthplace, Jogjakarta; they listen to a strangers phone call at the Motel 6 in Alberta; they linger in the so-called ethnic aisle of the grocery store. From all of these places, the speaker is discouraged but tries to imagine a future joyously incomprehensible to the present.
Slows: Twice is a collection of revisions and repetitions; every poem in one half of the book has an alternate version, or a mirror poem, in the other half. The poems are tied to themes of work and labor, consumption and waste, family and home, as shapers of identity and relationships. The act of revising and repeating – slowly – is meant to be a resistance to efficiency, a resistance to being an always-productive body under capitalism.
The poems of Slows: Twice collect in resonance, contemplate the construction of selves, with modes of repetition, sequencing, and mirroring, the way. The clouds // disappear the sky sometimes; or they become it. Storied and cubistic, palindromic and cleaved, Liems poems reveal relationships to time, noise, and duration, and the possibility of joy given painful pasts. – Hoa Nguyen, author of A Thousand Times You Lose Your Treasure
T. Liem is one of my favorite poets working in Canada. I welcomed this book into my life like sudden sunl.
Weight: 168g
Dimension: 139 x 217 x 13 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781552454619
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