Dance-Floor Romance
eBook - ePub

Dance-Floor Romance

  1. 111 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
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eBook - ePub

Dance-Floor Romance

About this book

Anthems to art and transformation, from past Poet Laureate, Chris Tse. Plot a lifetime of joy. Begin with a niece discovering how to dance; end with a poet weeping happy tears next to water. ā€” from ' On joy' Unfolding in the strobe-lit landscape of the club, this latest collection from Chris Tse reflects on joy, nostalgia and legacy ā€“ and what it means to make a vocation of vulnerability. Words hit the page like light on a mirrorball as Tse takes us from come-up to comedown, between the spotlight and the shadowy corners, penning both sadbangers and straight-up bangers that are generous, alive and shot through with the magnetic urgency of a club classic. But when the lights come up after the last dance, how do we brace ourselves to face the world outside? Dance-Floor Romance is poetry that seeks answers from the art we turn to in times of uncertainty, that ' Holds the present as much as it / holds a whisper of the future' , and amplifies it. Someone hand Tse the AUX cord.

Information

Publisher
Auckland University Press
Year
2026
Topic
Literature
eBook ISBN
9781776712571
Subtopic
Poetry
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Dedication
  6. On joy
  7. 2022 & Other Poems
  8. Search history
  9. It wasnā€™t a phase, Mumā€”I still listen to Celine Dion
  10. BRAT by Charli XCX by Chris Tse
  11. I was busy thinking ā€™bout boys
  12. ā€˜They were very regularly gay.ā€™
  13. Itā€™s just a little crush
  14. Speak its name
  15. Customers who bought this item also bought ā€¦
  16. Body of workā€”Robert Mapplethorpe
  17. Duplex
  18. Poets donā€™t lie
  19. Midnight, somewhere
  20. 2023 & Other Poems
  21. Audience & performer
  22. How to edit a poem
  23. Paris (seen)
  24. Subtitles missing
  25. Body of workā€”Marsden Hartley
  26. Erotica by Madonna by Chris Tse
  27. Body of workā€”Louise Bourgeois
  28. Nightlife by Pet Shop Boys by Chris Tse
  29. I want things that wonā€™t make me happy
  30. ā€”stringā€”gamesā€”
  31. Body of workā€”Barry Lett
  32. Fonder
  33. 2024 & Other Poems
  34. In the group chat, my cousin asks: ā€˜What does the meme ā€œYou met me at a very Chinese time in my lifeā€ mean?ā€™
  35. art versus the world
  36. Long exposure
  37. The monument
  38. It will pass
  39. All the worldā€™s a stage, & all the poets have main character energy
  40. Blackout by Britney Spears by Chris Tse
  41. X / O / X
  42. Forbidden
  43. ~~~the longest wave~~~
  44. Dance-floor romance
  45. Iā€™m coming to the cottage
  46. 2025 & Other Poems
  47. The time travellerā€™s memoir
  48. Patience
  49. Here we go
  50. Fever by Kylie Minogue by Chris Tse
  51. Your uncleā€™s story
  52. Hearts unfold
  53. Space race
  54. Happy; Happy
  55. I love you more than Kylie Minogue
  56. Lines composed less than a mile from the nearest Kum & Go
  57. Number 13
  58. The last poem
  59. Notes & acknowledgements
  60. About the Author

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