Postscripts from a City Burning
- Publisher
- Palimpsest Press
- Initial publish date
- Sep 2021
- Category
- General, Canadian
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781989287811
- Publish Date
- Sep 2021
- List Price
- $19.95
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Description
How does one write a preemptive eulogy for their hometown, a transient metropolis arriving at its last stop” Composed over a span of three months, Postscripts from a City Burning reassembles the embers left behind by the 2019 Hong Kong protests (and ultimately failed coup), weaving nostalgia, loss, and possible redemption into a time capsule of diaristic verse, photographs, dramatic monologues, and historical testimony. At once angry, despondent and unflinching, Sam Cheuk's second full-length collection offers up a microcosmic prelude of a city's smouldering ruin among many in a world marching to the heartbeat of increasingly authoritarian impulses.
About the author
Sam Cheuk is a Hong Kong-born Canadian author of Love Figures, Deus et Machina and Postscripts from a City Burning. He is currently working on Marginalia, which examines the function, execution and generative potential behind censorship.
