Book review: Tse Hao Guang’s The International Left-Hand Calligraphy Association is a gallery of words

Singaporean poet Tse Hao Guang's second full-length poetry collection is published by Tinfish Press. PHOTOS: DARYL QILIN YAM, TINFISH PRESS
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By Tse Hao Guang
Poetry/Tinfish Press/Paperback/74 pages/$30.34/Books Kinokuniya
5 stars

You do not so much read the poems in this book as you absorb them, as if they were scrolls of Chinese ink paintings on the walls, diffusing their impressions. Most of the poems fit on a single page, their lines unfurling like brush strokes across the paper.

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