
When the Barbarians Arrive
Alvin Pang(Author)
Arc Publications (Publisher)
Published on 26. June 2012
Book
Hardback
80 pages
978-1-906570-99-6 (ISBN)
Description
This is a selected works from Alvin Pang's previous five collections. Throughout the selection Pang writes about meditation to unsentimental love poems to writing that is satirical. Wry and shrewd, the poems promote intelligence and sensitivity. They mock, celebrate and unsettle, are generous and beautiful, full of paradoxes, logic and illogicalica, and are at once recognizably national and international in reach, offering a fresh edgy energy to the wave of urban poetry emerging from Singapore.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Lancs
United Kingdom
Dimensions
Height: 223 mm
Width: 145 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-906570-99-6 (9781906570996)
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When the Barbarians Arrive
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Person
Alvin PANG (b. 1972, Singapore) is a poet, writer, editor, anthologist, and translator. His poetry has been translated into over fifteen languages, and he has appeared in major festivals and anthologies worldwide. A Fellow of the University of Iowa's International Writing Program (2002), his publications include Testing the Silence (1997), City of Rain (2003), What Gives Us Our Names (2011) and Waiting for the Barbarians (forthcoming 2012, in Croatian translation). The anthologies he has curated include No Other City: The Ethos Anthology of Urban Poetry (2000); Over There: Poems from Singapore and Australia (co-edited with John Kinsella, 2008), and Tumasik: Contemporary Writing from Singapore (Autumn Hill: USA, 2009). He is a founding director of The Literary Centre - a non-profit initiative promoting interdisciplinary capacity, multilingual communication, and positive social change. Pang was named the 2005 Young Artist of the Year for Literature by Singapore's National Arts Council, and was conferred the Singapore Youth Award (Arts and Culture) in 2007.
Content
CONTENTS Initiation, Fly-Fishing Friction, The Scent of the Real, Homecoming , Shades of Light in Holland, Village , What to Write About in Cold Storage, circa 2000 AD , What it Means to be Landless , Absences , Poem for an Engineer , Merlign , The Meaning of Wealth in the New Economy , Other Things , Patience , Salt , Aubade , The Burning Room , Incendium Amoris , Candles , Rain , To Go to S'pore , Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Snowscape , Loaded , Upgrading , Made of Gold , When the Barbarians Arrive , Biographical Note