Postscripts from a City Burning
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 Cheuks second full-length collection offers up a microcosmic prelude of a citys smouldering ruin among many in a world marching to the heartbeat of increasingly authoritarian impulses.
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Postscripts from a City Burning
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 Cheuks second full-length collection offers up a microcosmic prelude of a citys smouldering ruin among many in a world marching to the heartbeat of increasingly authoritarian impulses.
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Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9781989287811 |
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Publisher: | Palimpsest Press |
Publication date: | 09/01/2021 |
Pages: | 80 |
Product dimensions: | 5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.04(d) |
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