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Language:EnglishPublisher:Faber & FaberISBN-13:9780571348046ISBN-10:571348041UPC:9780571348046Book Category:PoetryBook Subcategory:Asian, EuropeanBook Topic:English, Irish, Scottish, WelshSize:7.90 x 5.80 x 0.30 inchesWeight:0.2998Product ID:SCR48D8J8H
Fl?che
POETRY BOOK SOCIETY RECOMMENDATION Fl che (the French word for 'arrow') is an offensive technique commonly used in fencing, a sport of Mary Jean Chan's young adult years, when she competed locally and internationally for her home city, Hong Kong. This cross-linguistic pun presents the queer, non-white body as both vulnerable ('flesh') and weaponised ('fl che'), and evokes the difficulties of...
Series: Faber Poetry
Language:EnglishPublisher:Faber & FaberISBN-13:9780571348046ISBN-10:571348041UPC:9780571348046Book Category:PoetryBook Subcategory:Asian, EuropeanBook Topic:English, Irish, Scottish, WelshSize:7.90 x 5.80 x 0.30 inchesWeight:0.2998Product ID:SCR48D8J8H
Mary Jean Chan grew up in Hong Kong and studied at Swarthmore College, the University of Oxford and Royal Holloway, University of London. Her debut pamphlet, A Hurry of English, was selected as the 2018 Poetry Book Society Summer Pamphlet Choice. In 2017, Chan's poem '//' was shortlisted for the 2017 Forward Prize for Best Single Poem. She is a Ledbury Poetry Critic, editor of Oxford Poetry,...
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