Thhhhh
Thhhhh is a long poem sequence that deconstructs and reconstructs the remaking of the dental fricative, th. This diagraphical ligature embodies itself through the transmutational character arc of Thorn, and their other variant personas throughout this cycle.
Thorn is a diasporic Vietnamese presence who undergoes the transfiguration of linguistic body horror in relation to the materiality of their namesake. Part poetic mythos, part neologistic workshop—these poems chronicle the sonic vessel of the voiceless dental fricative, th. A canonicity about the aspirated and unaspirated characters within this multilingual matrix. Unpronounceable in Vietnamese phonetics, Thorn serializes a poetic lore built on this oral continuity of tongue and teeth consonance to revolt against language attrition and erasure.
Through metaphors of failed tongues, bilinguality, word puzzles, asemic writing, and mutated vowels, this translanguaging coda emancipates the power of names. The poems in this collection focus on the rearticulation, translingual hybridity, and dynamic language-making in the wake of imperial and colonial violences. The hope is to carve new spaces amidst these entanglements.
Thhhhh
CA$15.00
8.5″ x 5.5″ inches, 24 pages, saddle-stitched booklet. Letterpress cover on superfine eggshell cardstock. Each purchased chapbook comes signed in my signature asemic writing script. You will also receive complimentary broadside of my asemic cipher alphabet, "alpha/broken" to decode the message!
hybrid utterance
What if you woke up next beside the corpse of your language?Amidst the liminal postwar between English, Vietnamese, and French, hybrid utterance is a chimerical text that explores heteroglossia as rearticulation, translingual hybridity, and dynamic language-making in the wake of imperial and colonial violences. Through metaphors of failed tongues, bilinguality, word puzzles, and mutated vowels, this translanguaging sequence emancipates the power of names into this chimerical text of decolonized heteroglossia.
8.5″ x 5.5″ inches, 20 pages, saddle-stitched booklet. Decorative glossy book cover.
A poem from the chapbook is available to read on Poetry Pause
Available for purchase at local Lower Mainland bookstores:
Spartacus Books
1983 Commercial Dr. #101Vancouver, BC V5N 4A8
People's Co-Op Bookstore
1391 Commercial Dr, Vancouver, BC V5L 3X5
Massy Books
229 E Georgia St, Vancouver, BC V6A 4J7
Western Sky Bookstore
2850 Shaughnessy St Unit 2132, Port Coquitlam, BC V3C 0A4
Albany Books and Games (both Langley & Tsawwassen)
8.5″ x 5.5″ inches, 20 pages, saddle-stitched booklet. Decorative glossy book cover.
A poem from the chapbook is available to read on Poetry Pause
Available for purchase at local Lower Mainland bookstores:
Spartacus Books
1983 Commercial Dr. #101Vancouver, BC V5N 4A8
People's Co-Op Bookstore
1391 Commercial Dr, Vancouver, BC V5L 3X5
Massy Books
229 E Georgia St, Vancouver, BC V6A 4J7
Western Sky Bookstore
2850 Shaughnessy St Unit 2132, Port Coquitlam, BC V3C 0A4
Albany Books and Games (both Langley & Tsawwassen)
hybrid utterance--poetry chapbook
CA$15.00
8.5″ x 5.5″ inches, 20 pages, saddle-stitched booklet. Decorative glossy book cover. Each purchased chapbook comes signed in my signature asemic writing script. You will also receive complimentary broadside of my asemic cipher alphabet, "alpha/broken" to decode the message!
