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Singaporean poet Tse Hao Guang's second full-length poetry collection is published by Tinfish Press.

Singaporean poet Tse Hao Guang's second full-length poetry collection is published by 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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