Bilingual poetic exploration blurring language boundaries.
This book could be a good read for anyone who loves poetry and is open to exploring the beauty and fluidity of language. Parsetreeforestfire breaks free from the conventional idea of language learning books and offers a unique perspective by blending Singlish and English poems. It challenges readers to delve into the intense attention to language and invites them to question the boundaries of language itself. If you're looking for an unconventional and thought-provoking poetic experience, this book is for you.
ISBN: 9789811414084
Authors:
Hamid Roslan
Publisher: Ethos Books
Date of Publication: 2019-07-01
Format: Paperback
Goodreads rating: 3.97
(rated by 32 readers)
Description
parsetreeforestfire is a bilingual book of poetry in which poems in Singlish occupy one side of the book, and poems in English on the other. Conventionally such a book functions as a way for a person to learn a new language, but it remains to be seen if translation has successfully occurred, or if the book even intends to teach any reader how to speak either language. Instead, if poetry is intense attention to language, then this book can be considered to be the product of such scrutiny on the languages the book is written in.
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*Books may be missing bundle media (e.g. CD, e-book code), if included.
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