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Poetry Canadian

PERFACT

by (author) Nicole Fong

Publisher
Talonbooks
Initial publish date
Apr 2019
Category
Canadian, Women Authors, LGBT
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781772012279
    Publish Date
    Apr 2019
    List Price
    $16.95

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Description

PERFACT is a series in three parts, beginning with an interrogation into the structure of experience, language, and identity. The title poem, “PERFACT,” is an approach to materiality and consciousness in which each intersect, partaking in a coded interchange. This interchange precedes the stage play, 物の哀れ (“mono-no-aware,” an untranslatable Japanese term which might be expressed as an empathy or awareness of things), a “dark night of the soul” whose dramatic interchange leads a feminine “I” inwards and back again, countering the coherence of singular identity with the threat of sublimation. This mystical junction makes way for “MINE,” a lineated poem presenting a disassociated clarity marked by absence, survival’s persistent interlude.

About the author

Nicole Raziya Fong is a poet living in Montréal. Her work seeks to delimit and reconstruct immaterial ampules of psychic experience, coaxing the incorporeal into inhabiting a more muscular physique.

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Editorial Reviews

"Fong’s powerful debut is a text to return to, to linger on, to rest against the palate of the mouth, and to experientially diffuse as a colour palette of verbal potential."—Montréal Review of Books

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