Waking Up to the Pattern Left by a Snail Overnight

<p><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)></strong><strong style=color: rgba(32 32 32 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Everything everywhere all at once yet intimately pulsatingly at home. - Yeow Kai Chai winner of the 2022 Singapore Literature Prize</strong></p><p><br></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>A miraculous gathering of voices from nature pop culture and human dictatorship this crystalline collection asks what it means to live in danger and how to break free.</strong></p><p><br></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)><em>Winner of the 2022 Gaudy Boy Poetry Book Prize</em></strong></p><p><br></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>The archaeological traces of a snail trail are left on a window evidence of a fevered sleepless wandering. A charlatan fortune teller utters prophecies from a coffin of a box. Small moments - the cutting of a butternut squash the discovery of an octopus in the water - become windows into the tragicomedy of human life.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>A journey between politics and ecology </span><em style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Waking Up to the Pattern Left by a Snail Overnight</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> bursts open the shared doors of meditation and madness of nature and human corruption throwing the sounds and visions of Taylor Swift Bjork Maria Ressa Mad Max Japanese anime and the Marcos dictatorship into an unpredictable dance filled with moments of silence and wonder.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Tinged with darkness but never with despair these poems walk through remnants of grief destruction and corruption and toward versions of rebirth each one a map showing us the way to heal from loss and answer with joy. </span></p>