For now I am sitting here growing transparent (Hong Kong Atlas)

Authors: Yau Ching Publisher: Zephyr Press Pages: 120 Date Published: 2025-02-18 Language: en Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9781938890345 About the Book: As an award-winning video artist and queer community organizer, Hong Kong poet Yau Ching brings crisp imagery and a socially-engaged outlook to her work.Simultaneously erudite and earthy, her poetry is shaped by Hong Kong’s cultural position on the margins of mainland China and at the center of the Cantonese-speaking world. But her time spent in New York, London, Michigan, Taiwan, and elsewhere also informs her work, as do a breast cancer diagnosis in 2009, and her long-time work advocating for sexual minorities.Yau’s oeuvre explores gender, aesthetics, colonialism, relationships, and illness with a wide range of emotions and registers, and frequently employs wordplay. This bilingual collection includes astute political poems, understated love poems, urban anti-eclogues, and prose poems.