Poetry
ISBN-13: 978-1-989287811
$19.95 CDN / $18.95 US | Trade Paperback
September 2021
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.
Praise for Postscripts from a City Burning
[A] beautifully written, deeply moving diary of resistance, rage and despair.—Kate Rogers, Ricepaper Magazine
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