Going Home

Jonathan Chan
Paperback, 96 pages
9789811847318

As a sequence, going home unfolds with a mixture of astonishing technical assurance and intense personal and physical immediacy. We are reminded that the tongue tastes as well as speaks, and that the complex experience of a many-layered cultural history is built into the whole life of the body. These are poems in which the meaningfulness of the convergence of body and soul is wonderfully captured; a rare, vivid, sensitive, precise voice.