{"product_id":"a-blind-salmon-9781646053063","title":"A Blind Salmon","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eA Blind Salmon\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eTusán writer Julia Wong Kcomt's sixth collection of poetry, \u003ci\u003eA Blind Salmon\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eBorn into a tusán (Chinese Peruvian) family in Chepén, Peru, \u003cb\u003eJulia Wong Kcomt\u003c\/b\u003e (1965-2024) was the author of eighteen volumes of poetry, seven books of fiction, and three collections of hybrid prose. In English, her work has been published in \u003ci\u003eThe Margins\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eMcSweeney's\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePoetry\u003c\/i\u003e, and other outlets. She lived between Lima and Lisbon.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJennifer Shyue\u003c\/b\u003e is a translator from Spanish. Her translations include Julia Wong Kcomt's chapbook \u003ci\u003eVice-royal-ties\u003c\/i\u003e and Augusto Higa Oshiro's novel \u003ci\u003eThe Enlightenment of Katzuo Nakamatsu\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Phoneme Media","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50522077888786,"sku":"9781646053063","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_b789aa07-ecad-401c-8fdf-5b135f8d39d0.jpg?v=1731113429","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/a-blind-salmon-9781646053063","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}