Inspector inspector / Jee Leong Koh.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Koh, Jee Leong, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Singaporean poetry (English).

Authors, Singaporean.

Physical Description:

87 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Manchester : Carcanet Press Ltd, 2022.

Summary:

Jee Leong Koh writes out of the heart of a contemporary reality most readers are familiar with at second or third hand. He writes of political exile and spiritual homelessness; he understands the perils of war, and the perils of certain kinds of peace. Inspector Inspector is his second Carcanet book (Steep Tea was published in 2015 and chosen as a Best Book of the Year in the Financial Times), and it develops his earlier themes with authority, passion and a sense of possible justice. Steep Tea dialogued with women poets from across the world; Inspector Inspector struggles with the legacies of fathers, personal, poetic and political. Threaded through the erotic poems and poems based on interviews with fellow Singaporeans living in America are thirteen palinodes in the voice of the speaker's dead father, which he answers when the father's voice falls silent. Jee Leong Koh's is an inclusive, generous and forgiving imagination, with an enviable mastery of traditional and experimental forms. -- Publisher's website.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: Palinode in the Voice of My Dead Father (I)

Palinode in the Voice of My Dead Father (II)

Palinode in the Voice of My Dead Father (III)

Thank You, Thank You

Likelihood

Gaudy Boy

Viewing Martin Ramirez at the American Folk Art Museum after a Night of Fucking in a Lycra Suit (after Yeow Kai Chat)

Squatting Quietly

Missing Subject Line

The Peace Lily

To a Young Poet

Palinode in the Voice of My Dead Father (IV)

Palinode in the Voice of My Dead Father (V)

Palinode in the Voice of My Dead Father (VI)

Palinode in the Voice of My Dead Father (VII)

From Ungovernable Bodies

Carlos, November 30, 2006 (Thu)

Andy, April 7, 2007 (Sat)

Antonio, May 16, 2007 (Wed)

Andy, May 27, 2007 (Sun)

Andy, June 16, 2007 (Sat)

Mike, June 22, 2007 (Fri)

Andy, July 1, 2007 (Sun)

Palinode in the Voice of My Dead Father (VIII)

Palinode in the Voice of My Dead Father (IX)

From `A Simple History of Singaporeans in America'

The Ceramicist

The Columnist

The Author

The Muslim

The Art Director

The Speculative Fiction Writer

The Daughter

The Porn Star

The Prodigal

The Father

Palinode in the Voice of My Dead Father (X)

Inspector Inspector

Palinode in the Voice of My Dead Father (XI)

Dream Child

Palinode in the Voice of My Dead Father (XII)

Palinode in the Voice of My Dead Father (XIII)

The Reply.

Other Format:

ebook version :

ISBN:

1800172222

9781800172227

OCLC:

1289919188