A Blind Salmon

By: Julia Wong Kcomt, Jennifer Shyue (Translator)

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Paperback | 9 October 2024

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A Blind Salmon engages in Julia Wong Kcomt''s characteristically unflinching plumbing of the human body and traces fanged emotions with sticky precision, exploring mothering, multilinguality, and madness.

Tusán writer Julia Wong Kcomt’s sixth collection of poetry, A Blind Salmon is her first full-length collection available in English. Written while she was living in Buenos Aires, the collection crosses borders between Berlin, Buenos Aires, Chepén, Tijuana, and Vienna. It takes up sameness and difference, shot through with desert sand.

In these poems, Wong Kcomt renders homage to writers such as the Peruvian poet and visual artist Jorge Eduardo Eielson, who died in Milan as she was writing them. She fingers the filmy line between poetry and narrative prose to build a lyrical menagerie all her own.

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"Julia Wong Kcomt's poems sweep you into the tender points of the diasporic soul-that ache of always being a little bit elsewhere, the yearning for homes and languages that might have been . . . Jennifer Shyue's translation undulates with a delicate, playful attunement." -Katrina Dodson, translator of Macunaima

"Now I want to read everything Wong Kcomt has written (is writing) and everything Shyue is bringing, so ingeniously, into English." -Brandon Shimoda, author of Hydra Medusa

"[Wong Kcomt] slings imagery like a backhand slap. The result is often a whiplash between yearning and carnage." ?-Justin Sun, Action Books Blog

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