Research Catalog

Title

Inspector inspector / Jee Leong Koh.

Author

Koh, Jee Leong

Publication

• Manchester : Carcanet Press Ltd, 2022.
• ©2022

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Details

Description

87 pages; 22 cm

Summary

Jee Leong Koh writes out of the heart of a contemporary reality most readers are familiar with at second or third hand. He writes of political exile and spiritual homelessness; he understands the perils of war, and the perils of certain kinds of peace. Inspector Inspector is his second Carcanet book (Steep Tea was published in 2015 and chosen as a Best Book of the Year in the Financial Times), and it develops his earlier themes with authority, passion and a sense of possible justice. Steep Tea dialogued with women poets from across the world; Inspector Inspector struggles with the legacies of fathers, personal, poetic and political. Threaded through the erotic poems and poems based on interviews with fellow Singaporeans living in America are thirteen palinodes in the voice of the speaker's dead father, which he answers when the father's voice falls silent. Jee Leong Koh's is an inclusive, generous and forgiving imagination, with an enviable mastery of traditional and experimental forms. -- Publisher's website.

Subject

• Singaporean poetry (English)
• Authors, Singaporean

Genre/Form

Poetry.

Contents

Machine generated contents note: Palinode in the Voice of My Dead Father (I) -- Palinode in the Voice of My Dead Father (II) -- Palinode in the Voice of My Dead Father (III) -- Thank You, Thank You -- Likelihood -- Gaudy Boy -- Viewing Martin Ramirez at the American Folk Art Museum after a Night of Fucking in a Lycra Suit (after Yeow Kai Chat) -- Squatting Quietly -- Missing Subject Line -- The Peace Lily -- To a Young Poet -- Palinode in the Voice of My Dead Father (IV) -- Palinode in the Voice of My Dead Father (V) -- Palinode in the Voice of My Dead Father (VI) -- Palinode in the Voice of My Dead Father (VII) -- From Ungovernable Bodies -- Carlos, November 30, 2006 (Thu) -- Andy, April 7, 2007 (Sat) -- Antonio, May 16, 2007 (Wed) -- Andy, May 27, 2007 (Sun) -- Andy, June 16, 2007 (Sat) -- Mike, June 22, 2007 (Fri) -- Andy, July 1, 2007 (Sun) -- Palinode in the Voice of My Dead Father (VIII) -- Palinode in the Voice of My Dead Father (IX) -- From ̀A Simple History of Singaporeans in America' -- The Ceramicist -- The Columnist -- The Author -- The Muslim -- The Art Director -- The Speculative Fiction Writer -- The Daughter -- The Porn Star -- The Prodigal -- The Father -- Palinode in the Voice of My Dead Father (X) -- Inspector Inspector -- Palinode in the Voice of My Dead Father (XI) -- Dream Child -- Palinode in the Voice of My Dead Father (XII) -- Palinode in the Voice of My Dead Father (XIII) -- The Reply.

Call Number

JFD 23-1507

ISBN

• 1800172222
• 9781800172227
• 9781800172234 (ePub ebook) (canceled/invalid)

OCLC

1289919188

Author

Koh, Jee Leong, author.

Title

Inspector inspector / Jee Leong Koh.

Publisher

Manchester : Carcanet Press Ltd, 2022.

Copyright Date

©2022

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Other Form:

ebook version : 9781800172234

Research Call Number

JFD 23-1507