What is it to exist in such a way that life, love, and literature are linked so tightly that no difference remains? In this tight novellalike poems, where the sentences seem to follow no order but a silky libidinal pulsation and the narrators beloved is literally a pencil, hybrid poetwriterartist Vi Khi Nao tells us howand tells us, too, of the stakes that attend such an existence especially when confronting the sharp edges of illness or systemic neglect. Friendships are ended and begun. Lovers are met and left. Family rhythms wax and wane. A beloved mentor diligently tries to school the author in the literary establishments worldly protocols. And literature continues through it all, an evil sun whose dark light enlivens as much as it destroys.Vi Khi Naos silky, liminal, novellalike poems dissolve the boundaries between photography, love, and literature, merging them into a single, pulsing realitywhere a pencil is a lover, friendships and family flicker like matchsticks in a typhoon, and literature hacks up dry ink like a body straining against emphysema.

Binding: Paperback;72 pages; Publisher: Malarkey Books; Classification: N/A; Weight: 240.66 g; Dimensions: N/A

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