As Slow As Possible

Kit Fan

ISBN 10: 1911469436 / ISBN 13: 9781911469438

Published by Arc Publications, 2018

About this Item

nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - Kit Fan's As Slow As Possible is a book of changes, of unlikely bridges between far-flung places and times, a collection of shape-shifting, trans-migrant poems that travel across geographies and time zones. There are poems about the slow life of trees which establish links across time and space, about environmental catastrophe, art in war zones, artworks that travel across time, all of them reflecting on mortality and survival. Divided into three parts, the book weaves back and forwards between East and West, past and present, art and memory, pivoting around a central sequence called 'Genesis', an uncanny re-telling of Chinese creation myths in the language of the Authorised Version. The first part of the book is a brilliantly chromatic travelogue, while the collection ends with a more grounded sequence, 'Twelve Months', focusing on a kind of diurnal poetic house-keeping, based on the poet's migrant life in Yorkshire.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: As Slow As Possible
• Publisher: Arc Publications
• Publication Date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1911469436
• ISBN 13: 9781911469438
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 234W x 156H x 6D millimeters 234 millimeters width by 156 millimeters height by 6 millimeters depth
• Weight: 149 grams

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Synopsis

Kit Fan's As Slow As Possible is a book of changes, of unlikely bridges between far-flung places and times, a collection of shape-shifting, trans-migrant poems that travel across geographies and time zones. There are poems about the slow life of trees which establish links across time and space, about environmental catastrophe, art in war zones, artworks that travel across time, all of them reflecting on mortality and survival. Divided into three parts, the book weaves back and forwards between East and West, past and present, art and memory, pivoting around a central sequence called 'Genesis', an uncanny re-telling of Chinese creation myths in the language of the Authorised Version. The first part of the book is a brilliantly chromatic travelogue, while the collection ends with a more grounded sequence, 'Twelve Months', focusing on a kind of diurnal poetic house-keeping, based on the poet's migrant life in Yorkshire.