{"product_id":"chan-jonathan-azalea-diapb","title":"[02\/01\/27] Chan, Jonathan: azalea dialogues","description":"\u003cp\u003eGasher Press, paperback\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublication Date: February 1, 2027\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublisher Marketing:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"productDescription\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eazalea dialogues is a moving tribute to the Korean diaspora across continents and centuries, painstakingly threading together lives that were—and are—blown apart and scattered by war and imperialism, swept from one violence to another, from one struggle for survival to yet another. These pages filled me with so much sadness, yet also a strange solace in discovering that here was a spacetime where I—a fellow hyphenated Korean living in Singapore—belonged: this tenacious lineage of people who’ve lived fully and freely in diaspora. 고맙습니다. —Sung Ryu\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Amid collapsing geographies, fragmented dreams and the afterlife of violence, here emerges astonishing scenes of vivid figures and voices that unsettle the ruins of history. Jonathan Chan’s documentary poetics illuminates the slipperiness of identity, hidden cartographies and the porous, fervent inner worlds of a diaspora. azalea dialogues is a transoceanic monument — formally innovative, lyrically fecund, and utterly resonant.\" —Manisha Anjali\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"The poems of azalea dialogues unscroll across the pages of time and space like ink brush paintings, the language calligraphic, spontaneous as brush strokes. Though at once seemingly delicate and ephemeral as muted landscapes, plunging at every turn is the bladed knife of sorrow reminding the reader of the primal gash that 'runs through the centre of the peninsula' from which years, distance, new bloodlines and accomplishments will not fully heal--a country severed, divided from itself.\" —Cathy Song\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eazalea dialogues engages with the memories, histories, and lives of those woven into the Korean diaspora, scattered across continents and seas. These are the narratives and myths of individuals and communities formed and informed by colonisation, occupation, war, prayer, and immigration. azalea dialogues is an attempt to imagine a more globalised diaspora, beyond the reference points of Korea, America, and Japan. It includes translations and new poems, thinking through myths and wars, prayers and adoptions, hallyu and visual art. It is a project in documentary, palimpsest, and persona that reimagines diaspora beyond location. Voices and nature merge into a chimera of language, hope, violence, and resurrection that challenges traditional notions of narrative and silence, forming a new sounding of time.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45630357536791,"sku":"9781957746319","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0004\/6497\/7956\/files\/1788113064-900.jpg?v=1790285554","url":"https:\/\/open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com\/products\/chan-jonathan-azalea-diapb","provider":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","version":"1.0","type":"link"}