{"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\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Gaudy Boy, LLC\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/01\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781958652176\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 106\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.34lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.22d","brand":"Wahidah Tambee","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51334153961653,"sku":"9781958652176","price":13.6,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_7f8705da-3d2c-4683-8e80-1711e6f26d00.jpg?v=1752583956","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/eke-poems-9781958652176","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}