Things We Lost in the Fire
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Things We Lost in the Fire

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Things We Lost in the Fire

About this book

This pocket-sized paperback is one of the thirtytitles published for 2019Hong Kong International Poetry Nights. The theme of IPHHK2019is "Speech and Silence". From 19–24November 2019, 30 invited poets from various countries will be in Hong Kong to read their works based on the theme "Speech and Silence." Included in the anthology and box set, these unique works are presented with Chinese and English translations in bilingual or trilingual formats.Poets include Ana LuĂ­sa Amaral (Portugal), Maxim Amelin (Russia), Renato Sandoval Bacigalupo (Peru), Jen Bervin (USA), Ana Blandiana (Romania), Tamim Al-Barghouti (Palestine), Abbas Beydoun (Lebanon), Mi?osz Biedrzycki (Poland), Derek Chung (Hong Kong), Louise DuprĂ© (Canada), Forrest Gander (USA), Hwang Yu Won (South Korea), Maozi (PRC), Mathura (Estonia), Sergio Raimondi (Argentina), Ana Ristovi? (Serbia), K. Satchidanandan (India), Martin Solotruk (Slovakia), AleĆĄ Ć teger (Slovenia), Maria Stepanova (Russia), TĂłth Krisztina (Hungary), Ijeoma Umebinyuo (Nigeria), Anastassis Vistonitis (Greece), Jan Wagner (Germany), Ernest Wichner (Germany), Yang Chia-Hsien (Taiwan), Yasuhiro Yotsumoto (Japan), Yu Youyou (PRC), Zheng Xiaoqiong (PRC), and Zhou Yunpeng (PRC).

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Table of contents

  1. Full Title
  2. Copyright
  3. Contents
  4. Confessions
  5. “Where does depression take you?”
  6. The Delicate Acts of Survival
  7. “how quiet can we make this woman?”
  8. “Tell me, at night”
  9. “Nne’m, my mother”
  10. Nneka
  11. “A God as woman as me”
  12. Brave
  13. Phoenix
  14. “Remember”
  15. Survival
  16. Conversations with Broken Girls
  17. “twice broken”
  18. “The woman”
  19. “Nobody warned you”
  20. “Your son does not know”
  21. Nne
  22. Cruel
  23. “Bless the daughters who sat”
  24. “Your mother was your first mirror”
  25. “There are many ways to love yourself ”
  26. Five Languages
  27. Iya Femi
  28. Yellow Fever
  29. Trigger
  30. Scarred
  31. Splinter
  32. “Pardon me for breaking myself in half for you”
  33. Things We Lost in the Fire