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The Wrong/Wrung Side of Love

by Desmond Kon Zhicheng-Mingdé
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The Wrong/Wrung Side of Love
The Wrong/Wrung Side of Love

Alphabetic poetry for lovers of literary play

This feels like a poetry collection for readers who enjoy language doing strange, beautiful things. Desmond Kon turns the alphabet into something intimate and intellectually alive, blending tenderness with wit and dreamlike urgency. If you like poetry that converses with great writers while still feeling emotionally immediate, this one has a quietly magnetic pull.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.

The Wrong/Wrung Side of Love

by Desmond Kon Zhicheng-Mingdé
RM44.00 MYR
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ISBN: 9789810949358
Authors: Desmond Kon Zhicheng-Mingdé
Publisher: Squircle Line Press
Date of Publication: 2015-01-01
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: Literary Fiction, Contemporary, Poetry
Related Topics: Philosophy, Literary Criticism, Asian Literature, Literature
Goodreads rating: 4.17
(rated by 12 readers)

Description

If Desmond Kon’s earlier collection The Arbitrary Sign invoked continental philosophers like Jacques Derrida and Gilles Deleuze, The Wrong/Wrung Side of Love dialogues with some of Desmond’s favourite writers. These dialogic imports range from Franz Kafka to Jean-Paul Sartre, Dan Chiasson to John Wilkinson, all perambulating against the pivotal epigraph by Paul Celan. The same playful architecture of an alphabet book is present, eschewing a simple read to elevate each letter into moments of aphoristic epiphany, underscored by poems which are at once intimate, urgent, funny, dreamy, and robust. The book has been described by Lily Hoang as “a confabulation of desire and a prognosis of tender passion”.
 

Alphabetic poetry for lovers of literary play

This feels like a poetry collection for readers who enjoy language doing strange, beautiful things. Desmond Kon turns the alphabet into something intimate and intellectually alive, blending tenderness with wit and dreamlike urgency. If you like poetry that converses with great writers while still feeling emotionally immediate, this one has a quietly magnetic pull.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.