Honorifics
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Honorifics

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eBook - ePub

Honorifics

About this book

Cynthia Miller's debut poetry collection, Honorifics, is an astonishing, adventurous, and innovative exploration of family, Malaysian-Chinese cultural identity, and immigration. From jellyfish blooms to glitch art and distant stars, taking in Greek gods, space shuttles and wedding china along the way, Miller's mesmerizing approach is experimental, luscious, and expansive with longing - "My skin hunger could fill a galaxy".

Here, the poetry is interwoven with the words for all the things we honour – our loved ones and our ancestors, home and homecomings, and all that is precious and makes us feel that we belong and are beloved. It is also a book that examines contemporary issues of migration in sharp and enquiring relief. Language itself becomes a radical power for reimaging, challenging, and making change, and Miller's distinctive and multifaceted poetry creates an extraordinary space for multiplicity and celebration.

'This is language and detail, honed and luxurious. This is space and memory and migratory patterns and fable. An array of formal play and innovation. And everything finely weighted like a gift-box of intricate, interlocking mechanisms.' – Jacob Sam-La Rose

'Honorifics is a dazzlingly inventive collection that circles around themes of love and yearning, family history and migration, with a sophisticated touch. Formally playful, these poems are alive with imagery and a restless intelligence'– Jane Yeh

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Sayang / Sayang
  6. Portmeirion
  7. Summer preserves haibun
  8. Self-portrait as things that let the light in
  9. Proxima b
  10. Homecoming
  11. Malaysiana
  12. Glitch honorifics
  13. Dream opera in Kuching
  14. Yellow
  15. To become a dragon, first wear its skin
  16. There is no specific word in English for
  17. 30 things Sarawakians know
  18. Feast Day
  19. Social distancing
  20. Eurydice video calls her lover in lockdown
  21. BLOOM
  22. Sonnet with lighthouses
  23. The Home Office
  24. Leave
  25. Loving v. Virginia
  26. If given a choice, my boyfriend wants to be immortal
  27. Scheherezade in the care home
  28. Abridged dictionary for water babies
  29. Judith & the head of Holofernes
  30. The impossible physiology of the free diver
  31. Moon goddess ghazal
  32. Birds flimed in slow motion from a moving car
  33. Shell game
  34. Persimmon abecedarian
  35. Lupins
  36. Paddling at dusk, Winslow Homer, watercolor on paper (1892)
  37. Drokpa
  38. How to perfect a flip turn
  39. Voicemails from my mother
  40. Notes
  41. Acknowledgements
  42. About the author and this book