First Contact
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Author: Liu, Warren
Something on the horizon inches toward the drunken villagers of Zonal Beach, but what – or who – could it be? In 'First Contact', Warren Liu presents a hilarious, polyphonic poem that narrates the agonisingly slow-motion progress of a first contact encounter between coastal natives and shipwrecked would-be colonisers. Liu’s wry, humorous poetry uses three distinct voices to highlight the inherent farce of coming up against a world entirely different from one’s own. Slipping between tropes of colonial myth-making and alien encounters, Liu animates the strange, slanted rhymes of history with a voracious wit and deft ear. Whether narrating the choral chatter of the bewildered villagers or a mystic’s pop-culture-informed oracular visions or the epistolary reminiscences of a lost exile, Liu demonstrates again and again how colliding with a new culture always happens first as farce, then as farce once more.Warren Liu (born 1971) is a professor of English at Scripps College in Claremont, California.
ISBN 9781935717263. Kaya Press. pb. 112 pages. 20.3 x 13.3 cm.
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Something on the horizon inches toward the drunken villagers of Zonal Beach, but what – or who – could it be? In 'First Contact', Warren Liu presents a hilarious, polyphonic poem that narrates the agonisingly slow-motion progress of a first contact encounter between coastal natives and shipwrecked would-be colonisers. Liu’s wry, humorous poetry uses three distinct voices to highlight the inherent farce of coming up against a world entirely different from one’s own. Slipping between tropes of colonial myth-making and alien encounters, Liu animates the strange, slanted rhymes of history with a voracious wit and deft ear. Whether narrating the choral chatter of the bewildered villagers or a mystic’s pop-culture-informed oracular visions or the epistolary reminiscences of a lost exile, Liu demonstrates again and again how colliding with a new culture always happens first as farce, then as farce once more.Warren Liu (born 1971) is a professor of English at Scripps College in Claremont, California.
ISBN 9781935717263. Kaya Press. pb. 112 pages. 20.3 x 13.3 cm.
not yet published