Friday Night Shanghai

<p><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Friday Night Shanghai </em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>is a love letter to one of the most dynamic cities on the planet. Living as an expatriate in China for well over a decade Solway's poems are intimate meditations on what it means to be nomadic at heart or stranded in a world that won't let go. There are also poems about the transformative powers of art and the lives of artists-Giacometti Warhol Joseph Cornell and Robert Mapplethorpe as well as to our patron saints of literature such as Berryman Rexroth and Beckett. It is a book filled with music its lyric tension generated through distilled syntax tone yet always with an unflinching eye for close observation and for images that are at once evocative and indelible.</span></p>