Postscripts from a City Burning

By (author): Sam Cheuk

How does one write a preemptive eulogy for their hometown, a transient metropolis arriving at its last stop? Composed over a span of three months, Postscripts from a City Burning reassembles the embers left behind by the 2019 Hong Kong protests (and ultimately failed coup), weaving nostalgia, loss, and possible redemption into a time capsule of diaristic verse, photographs, dramatic monologues, and historical testimony. At once angry, despondent and unflinching, Sam Cheuk?s second full-length collection offers up a microcosmic prelude of a city?s smouldering ruin among many in a world marching to the heartbeat of increasingly authoritarian impulses.

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Sam Cheuk

Sam Cheuk is a Hong Kong-born Canadian author of Love Figures, Deus et Machina and Postscripts from a City Burning. He is currently working on Marginalia, which examines the function, execution and generative potential behind censorship.


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Dimensions:

80 Pages

180.00gr.25in5.50in * 8.50in

Published:

September 23, 2021

Publisher:

Palimpsest Press

ISBN:

9781989287811

Book Subjects:

POETRY / Asian / General

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