A BLIND SALMON by Julia Wong Kcomt
A Blind Salmon, a poetry collection by Chinese Peruvian writer Julia Wong Kcomt, is forthcoming from Phoneme Media / Deep Vellum Books in June 2024. Tusán writer Julia Wong Kcomt’s sixth collection of poetry is her first full-length collection available in English. Written while she was living in Buenos Aires, the collection crosses borders between Berlin, Buenos Aires, Chepén, Tijuana, and Vienna. It takes up sameness and difference, shot through with desert sand.
In these poems, Wong Kcomt renders homage to writers such as the Peruvian poet and visual artist Jorge Eduardo Eielson, who died in Milan as she was writing them. She fingers the filmy line between poetry and narrative prose to build a lyrical menagerie all her own. Named one of Ms. magazine’s “Reads for the Rest of Us: The Best Poetry of ’23-’24.” Translated from Spanish. Published bilingually.
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