{"product_id":"first-contact-9781935717263","title":"First Contact","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Warren Liu\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Kaya Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Kaya Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: American - General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA formally experimental and absurdist mock-epic poem that melds speculative fiction and travel writing\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSomething on the horizon inches toward the drunken villagers of Zonal Beach, but what--or who--could it be? In \u003ci\u003eFirst Contact\u003c\/i\u003e, Warren Liu presents a hilarious, polyphonic poem that narrates the agonizingly slow-motion progress of a first contact encounter between coastal natives and shipwrecked would-be colonizers. Liu's wry, humorous poetry uses three distinct voices to highlight the inherent farce of coming up against a world entirely different from one's own. Slipping between tropes of colonial myth-making and alien encounters, Liu animates the strange, slanted rhymes of history with a voracious wit and deft ear. Whether narrating the choral chatter of the bewildered villagers or a mystic's pop-culture-informed oracular visions or the epistolary reminiscences of a lost exile, Liu demonstrates again and again how colliding with a new culture always happens first as farce, then as farce once more.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWarren Liu\u003c\/b\u003e is a professor of English at Scripps College in Claremont, California.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Kaya Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47890188959895,"sku":"9781935717263","price":1152.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781935717263.webp?v=1781179060","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/first-contact-9781935717263","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}