Cold Sleep Permanent Afternoon
Will be published approx. on 18. February 2010
Book
Paperback/Softback
96 pages
978-0-88971-244-7 (ISBN)
Description
Cold Sleep Permanent Afternoon, the follow-up to Ray Hsu's award-winning first collection, Anthropy, is the second book in a prospective trilogy that explores the "grammar of personhood."
Whereas Anthropy approached the human condition through the prism of first-, second- and third-person perspectives, Cold Sleep Permanent Afternoon uses the grammatical concepts of singular and plural as grid-lines to chart contemporary life and concerns both harrowing and humane. Extending from this principal division, Hsu explores the borders between civic engagement and domesticity, dissent and accord, freedom and restriction--each of these are tested against another and framed by the tension between the collective and the individual. With Cold Sleep Permanent Afternoon, Ray Hsu presents our landscape in stark light,confronting the human drama that is manifesting within our lives,and investigating how we make sense of ourselves and the world we have wrought.
Whereas Anthropy approached the human condition through the prism of first-, second- and third-person perspectives, Cold Sleep Permanent Afternoon uses the grammatical concepts of singular and plural as grid-lines to chart contemporary life and concerns both harrowing and humane. Extending from this principal division, Hsu explores the borders between civic engagement and domesticity, dissent and accord, freedom and restriction--each of these are tested against another and framed by the tension between the collective and the individual. With Cold Sleep Permanent Afternoon, Ray Hsu presents our landscape in stark light,confronting the human drama that is manifesting within our lives,and investigating how we make sense of ourselves and the world we have wrought.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 203 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 5 mm
Weight
136 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-88971-244-7 (9780889712447)
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Ray Hsu is a poet, activist and scholar. His first book Anthropy won the 2005 League of Canadian Poets' Gerald Lampert Award and was shortlisted for the Trillium Book Award for Poetry. He has published over a hundred poems in more than thirty-five journals across Canada, the US and the UK, including Fence, The Fiddlehead and New American Writing. He teaches creative writing at the University of British Columbia. His second collection, Cold Sleep Permanent Afternoon, was published by Nightwood in 2010.