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Of the Florids

by Shawn Hoo
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Of the Florids
Of the Florids

Lush, queer eco-poetry for city-dazed dreamers

This feels like wandering through a tropical archive where animals, myths, empire, and memory keep speaking to each other in strange, beautiful ways. If you like poetry that is rich, layered, and a little wild, this book offers that rare sense of being both intellectually alive and sensually enchanted. It’s especially rewarding for readers drawn to nature writing that refuses to be simple, and instead blooms into something queer, baroque, and haunting.

  • Eric Hoffer Medal Provocateur Award (2023)
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.
Just Arrived

Of the Florids

by Shawn Hoo
RM45.00 MYR
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ISBN: 9781939728548
Authors: Shawn Hoo
Publisher: Diode Editions
Date of Publication: 2022-07-01
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: Nature, History, Philosophy
Related Topics: History, Animals, Environment, Asia, Theory, Natural History
Goodreads rating: 4.0
(rated by 13 readers)

Description

Tapirus indicus; Dugong dugon; Cicadoidea. Of the Florids begins with an inability to speak of the natural world in the urban fortress of Singapore—an island's fading romanticism for a city boy. Unrooting the lyricism of an archive that sprawls across natural history drawings ordered by British colonists, wartime reports on animals in Japan, queer myths of the Rabbit God, and the miracles of modern landscaping, the book teems with a polyphonic multispecies world where place can once again be enchanted. The map of the Florids starts to materialise and grows into a defiant root system: even as it feeds on the soil of history, it also speculates and twists according to its own ebullient, baroque music.
 

Lush, queer eco-poetry for city-dazed dreamers

This feels like wandering through a tropical archive where animals, myths, empire, and memory keep speaking to each other in strange, beautiful ways. If you like poetry that is rich, layered, and a little wild, this book offers that rare sense of being both intellectually alive and sensually enchanted. It’s especially rewarding for readers drawn to nature writing that refuses to be simple, and instead blooms into something queer, baroque, and haunting.

  • Eric Hoffer Medal Provocateur Award (2023)
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.