{"product_id":"eke-poems-9781958652176","title":"Eke: Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"Shimmer[s] at the edges of language, where sense becomes sensuous and shifts us away from our habits of silence and speech.\" -Divya Victor, author of \u003cem\u003eKith\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eCurb\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"Exquisite, tantalising construction.\" -Shubigi Rao, author, \u003cem\u003ePulp III: An Intimate Inventory of the Banished Book\u003c\/em\u003e, and winner, Singapore Literature Prize 2024\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA visual enactment of attempts at articulating, \u003cem\u003eEke\u003c\/em\u003e is the \u003cem\u003eat-tempt-ation\u003c\/em\u003e towards meaning.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat does the feeling of holding your words and thoughts back-stuck and struck in a state of percolation, a plasma state of signification-feel like? What does it look like for ambivalence and divergence to converge during the moment of articulation, when all word-opportunities collide at once, like wildly unspooling threads, like heavy raindrops on a glass surface racing from one fork to the next?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA collection of visual aberrations that fumble and stammer, and that concede that a closure in expression can never be achieved, the poems of \u003cem\u003eEke \u003c\/em\u003eache towards both painful and opportune expression.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eTambee, Wahidah:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Wahidah Tambee graduated with degrees in psychology and creative writing from Nanyang Technological University.","brand":"Gaudy Boy, LLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51475291439378,"sku":"9781958652176","price":11.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_a42e40a1-0f62-4477-9f10-029a06a6a690.jpg?v=1752591766","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/eke-poems-9781958652176","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}