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Hao Guang Tse (谢皓光) is the author of The International Left-Hand Calligraphy Association (Tinfish Press, 2022) and Deeds of Light (Math Paper Press, 2015), the latter shortlisted for the Singapore Literature Prize. He is a 2016 fellow of the University of Iowa's International Writing Program, and the 2018 National Writer-in-Residence at Nanyang Technological University. His poems have been featured in Poem-a-Day, Tammy, New Delta Review, Pain, Minarets, Big Other, Hotel, Asian American Writers' Workshop, Entropy and elsewhere. He was born and raised in Singapore, where he continues to live and work. ...more

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Angeline Yap: Hearing by Looking

吴冠中, “大宅”

I want to discuss a specific aspect of Angeline Yap’s poetics—the vexed relationship between sight and sound. In many poems her speakers blind and silence themselves in order to perceive a deeper presence; at the same time, poetry is inescapably sensuous. Yap’s speakers gesture towards an impossible ideal, one that, it seems, they go on striving towards anyhow.

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	A Luxury We Cannot Afford: An Anthology of Singapore Poetry by Christine Chia (Editor), Joshua Ip (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Paul Grayson (Contributor) 3.89 avg rating — 100 ratings — published 2014	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Ayam Curtain by J.Y. Yang (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Joyce Chng (Editor), Alvin Pang (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 3.60 avg rating — 55 ratings — published 2012	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	In Transit: An Anthology from Singapore on Airports and Air Travel by Yu-Mei Balasingamchow (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Ruihe Zhang (Editor), Joshua Ip (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 3.45 avg rating — 51 ratings — published 2016	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Deeds of Light 3.59 avg rating — 44 ratings — published 2015	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Coast: A Mono-Titular Anthology of Singapore Writing by Daren Shiau (Editor), Wei Fen Lee (Editor), Gwee Li Sui (Goodreads Author) (Introduction) 3.66 avg rating — 32 ratings — published 2011	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	LONTAR #2 by Jason Erik Lundberg (Goodreads Author) (Founding Editor), Kristine Ong Muslim (Goodreads Author) (Poetry Editor), E.C. Myers (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 3.82 avg rating — 28 ratings — published 2014 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	UnFree Verse by Tse Hao Guang (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Joshua Ip (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Theophilus Kwek (Editor) 4.08 avg rating — 25 ratings — published 2017 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Food Republic: A Singapore Literary Banquet by Daryl Lim Wei Jie (Goodreads Author) (Editor ), Ann Ang (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Tse Hao Guang (Goodreads Author) (Editor) 3.59 avg rating — 22 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	LONTAR #3 by Jason Erik Lundberg (Goodreads Author) (Founding Editor), Kristine Ong Muslim (Goodreads Author) (Poetry Editor), Anne Carly Abad (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 3.55 avg rating — 20 ratings — published 2014 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	hyperlinkage 3.40 avg rating — 20 ratings — published 2013	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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