Flèche: Costa Poetry Award 2019(9780571348046) - Dimensions: 204 x 157 x 6 mm - Main - Faber & Faber - Height: 157 mm - Spine width: 10 mm - Width: 203 mm - ISBN: 9780571348046 - Number of pages: 88 - Languages: English - Weight: 140 g | Poetic sequence
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This crosslinguistic pun presents the queer, nonwhite body as both vulnerable ('flesh') and weaponised ('fleche'), and evokes the difficulties of reconciling one's need for safety alongside the desire to shed one's protective armour in order to fully embrace the world. Central to the collection is the figure of the poet's mother, whose fragmented memories of political turmoil in twentiethcentury China are sensitively threaded through the book in an eightpart poetic sequence, combined with recollections from Chan's childhood.
As complex themes of multilingualism, queerness, psychoanalysis and cultural history emerge, so too does a richly imagined personal, maternal and national biography. The result is a series of poems that feel urgent and true, dazzling and devastating by turns.
Faber & Faber is a British publishing company, founded in 1929 by Geoffrey Faber. It publishes fiction, non-fiction, poetry, drama, children's books, and a range of educational materials.
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