Cities of Sameness

by Nicholas YB Wong

Overview

"Cities of Sameness" is Nicholas YB Wong’s first candid attempt in merging an Asian voice with American poetics. Poems in the book defy the heterosexual ideal of loves and desires and explore current issues of China and Hong Kong. The book seeks to destabilize social and literary landscape believed to have settled.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940013910317
Publisher:	Desperanto
Publication date:	02/28/2012
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	104
File size:	746 KB

About the Author

Nicholas YB Wong is the winner of Sentinel Literary Quarterly Poetry Competition (October 2011) and a nominee for Best of the Net 2010 (by Asia Writes, selected by Lee Upton) and Best of Web 2011 Anthologies (by Eunoia Review and THIS Literary Magazine). His work has also been shortlisted in the Chroma International Queer Writing Competition in 2009. His poetry has/will appear(ed) in Assaracus: Journal of Gay Poetry, Cha: An Asian Literary Journal, Lambda Literary Foundation, San Pedro River Review, Pirene’s Fountain, Third Wednesday, Mascara Literary Review, The Q Review, Taj Mahal Review, Asian Journal of Literature, Culture and Society, The Tower Journal, Diverse Voices Quarterly and among others. He is currently a poetry editor for THIS Literary Magazine and an MFA Candidate at the City University of Hong Kong.

Editorial Reviews

"These are breath-taking poems: provocative and uncompromising in their relentless anatomies of the subjected body. In these fiercely intelligent poems Wong creates wheels of revelations and then rolls them right through our assumptions."

Lee Upton

"The only permanent architecture is the act of undoing, Nicholas YB Wong writes in his poem "Demolition," and by that standard, the poems in Cities of Sameness are recitations of whimsical and enduring edifices that loosen the strands of dulled perception until what's truly original radiates and compels. This extraordinary first collection includes the little known anatomical facts of poets, the wily tricks of the Monkey King and the gift of a penis for Sharon Olds."

Ravi Shankar