Transparent Strangers by Loh Guan Liang
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// MATH PAPER PRESS MATH PAPER PRESS, an imprint of BOOKSACTUALLY is a small press publisher of poetry, new wave novellas, full-length novels, and essays. Its eclectic range of literary and visual works also includes photography collections, memoirs and young adult fiction. MATH PAPER PRESS also distributes books by small selected presses. . . . // TRANSPARENT STRANGERS poems by Loh Guan Liang IN TRANSPARENT STRANGERS, the city is more than steel and glass: it is also a landscape where emotion is as much architecture as it is part of human experience. With subjects ranging from burial sites to Taiwanese dramas, this debut collection of poems meditates on the distance we must cross with words to make the everyday unfamiliar again; if only to understand ourselves better. Published by MATH PAPER PRESS (2012) Distributed by MATH PAPER PRESS ISBN-13: 978-981-07-3273-8 Retail Price: SGD 16.00 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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Transparent Strangers / poems by Loh Guan Liang
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// MATH PAPER PRESS
MATH PAPER PRESS, an imprint of BOOKSACTUALLY is a small press publisher of poetry, new wave novellas, full-length novels, and essays. Its eclectic range of literary and visual works also
includes photography collections, memoirs and young adult fiction.
MATH PAPER PRESS also distributes books by small selected presses.
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// TRANSPARENT STRANGERS poems by Loh Guan Liang
IN TRANSPARENT STRANGERS, the city is more than steel and glass: it is also a landscape where emotion is as much architecture as it is part of human experience. With subjects ranging from burial sites to Taiwanese dramas, this debut collection of poems meditates on the distance we must cross with words to make the everyday unfamiliar again; if only to understand ourselves better.
Published by MATH PAPER PRESS (2012)
Distributed by MATH PAPER PRESS ISBN-13: 978-981-07-3273-8 Retail Price: SGD 16.00
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TRANSPARENT STRANGERS
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A gentle rain falls like snow, dusting the lazy sunday curiosities, filtering from the leaves’ heart-pressed isolation. It falls like an apology in the incomplete spaces between these lines. Hands open with the practised brevity of strangers passing each other to receive the thunder thawing after rain.
BIG SWEEP
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Between the snaking line outside NTUC (those sketch-artist wannabes pencilling profiles of better days that got away) and me, the choice is clear. Pick me, for I am hope, serial numbered and barcoded for your fingers’ fancy. I am the call to action you speak of, a stab at lost opportunities regained, multiplied in those zeros till the colours bleed like blood across the Merlion, the Esplanade the Singapore Flyer, the Vanda Miss Joaquim, the happy faces. Make your countrymen proud. Win. Tak me. If only because the rain is still falling and there’s nowhere else to go. You fumble for change, slap a bill on the wheelchair uncle’s lap. To him you are hope. — Excerpt from Transparent Strangers by Loh Guan Liang
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