Book Details
Format
Paperback
Pages
114
Language
English
Published
Jun 1, 2012
Publisher
Math Paper Press
ISBN-10
981050408X
ISBN-13
9789810504083
Description
A ghost steps out of its body after a suicide and looks back at it in wonder. The poet wonders at his own existence and struggles between actual living and a desire to depart. Recipient of the Singapore Literature Prize, this collection is Cyril Wong’s most personal sequence of poems, held together by memories about family life and intimate relationships, these moments charged with the pain of love, dreams of death and an unflinching explora-
tion of the self.
tion of the self.