{"product_id":"for-now-i-am-sitting-here-growing-transparent-9781938890345","title":"For Now I Am Sitting Here Growing Transparent","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Yau Ching\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Zephyr Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Zephyr Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Asian - Chinese\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAs an award-winning video artist and queer community organizer, Hong Kong poet Yau Ching brings crisp imagery and a socially-engaged outlook to her work.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSimultaneously erudite and earthy, her poetry is shaped by Hong Kong's cultural position on the margins of mainland China and at the center of the Cantonese-speaking world. But her time spent in New York, London, Michigan, Taiwan, and elsewhere also informs her work, as do a breast cancer diagnosis in 2009, and her long-time work advocating for sexual minorities. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eYau's oeuvre explores gender, aesthetics, colonialism, relationships, and illness with a wide range of emotions and registers, and frequently employs wordplay. This bilingual collection includes astute political poems, understated love poems, urban anti-eclogues, and prose poems.","brand":"Zephyr Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45299878461591,"sku":"9781938890345","price":1194.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781938890345.webp?v=1768582218","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/for-now-i-am-sitting-here-growing-transparent-9781938890345","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}