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1 online resource (1 audio file (1hr., 10 min.)) : digital. |
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digital digital recording rda |
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data file rda |
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Digital content provided by hoopla. |
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Read by Mary Jean Chan. |
| Summary |
Winner of the 2019 Costa Poetry Award WinnerFlèche (the French word for 'arrow') is an offensive technique commonly used in fencing, a sport of Mary Jean Chan's young adult years, when she competed locally and internationally for her home city, Hong Kong. This cross-linguistic pun presents the queer, non-white body as both vulnerable ('flesh') and weaponised ('flèche'), and evokes the difficulties of reconciling one's need for safety alongside the desire to shed one's protective armour in order to fully embrace the world. Central to the collection is the figure of the poet's mother, whose fragmented memories of political turmoil in twentieth-century China are sensitively threaded through the book in an eight-part poetic sequence, combined with recollections from Chan's childhood."Sparkling and vulnerable . . . the arrival of an essential new voice." SARAH HOWE |
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Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
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Chan, Mary Jean -- Poetry.
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Mothers and daughters -- Poetry.
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China -- Politics and government -- 20th century -- Poetry.
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Hong Kong (China) -- Poetry.
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Chan, Mary Jean.
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hoopla digital.
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| ISBN |
9781528892087 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
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1528892089 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
| Music No. |
MWT13644524 |
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