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It is a comprehensive map of 21st century love and its losses and failures. — Wong Phui Nam, poet and critic\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDeceptively simple and ingenuous, Malachi Edwin's unpretentious poems risk schmaltz by taking on the largest topic of love: what love can still mean in our age of political correctness, especially in the less knowable ways in which love transcends the body and the interpersonal self. — Cyril Wong, poet and fictionist\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eComplicated Lives (2016)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMalachi Edwin's Complicated Lives offers a rich throve of uncommon Malaysian stories distinctive in their local, Tamil and sexual passions, stretching from childhood to intimations of mortality, each poem another glimpse of 'Reality [that] is but a shade of illusion.' — Shirley Geok-lin Lim, poet and writer\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLife Happens (2017)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSimplicity of language and phrase-making are the hallmarks of Malachi Edwin Vethamani's poetry. Feelings, events, non-events, happenings — Life Happens as a natural course of action — and he records them with sensitivity that only an acute poet's eye and ear can do. More importantly, he explores important issues such as the complications and fractures of longing, heartbreak, exile and sexuality in Malaysian society. — Sudeep Sen, poet and editor\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThere is a lot more to be said about the poems. But because no two people ever read the same poem in the same way, I would urge you to read the poems and make your own discoveries. 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As expected, her language is tropical and redolent, like the lines in \"Day at the Mosque\" — \"the vellum goes the great way, \/ across fish ranging the hot soups of these \/ waters and the quiet lulls of those nearer \/ to the way my nipple cracks when it faces \/ the blue of twilight\" The poet invokes the local landscape and culture with passion and urgency. Being Born is about birth and rebirth, about hybridity and multiculturalism, about \"a tug between what is\" and \"a moment of ellipsis' and being simultaneously and comfortably at home in all these. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e— Sudeep Sen, author of Anthropocene (Pippa Rann), EroText (Vintage: Penguin Random House), and The HarperCollins Book of English Poetry (editor) \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBeing Born sweeps the reader headlong into the paradoxes of existence, finding wisdom in the eye of a grasshopper and peace curled in the belly of a hedgehog. The poems illuminate a vast landscape at our feet, making us see the familiar askance: in the \"violent light\", \"voyaging milk\" and \"deciduous freshlings\" our language is reborn in new configurations and takes flight in the wings of \"sunbird aunties\". These poems snake down the page in free verse that is by turns taut and expansive, rooted in the vegetal flesh of life and meditating on \"molecular godworlds\". Internal rhymes swoop with exquisite grace from \"dark meanderings\" to \"dangling things\" until \"All you need to do is swing\" with the rhythms of biology and prayer. This collection is an impressive achievement, a joy and an inspiration. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e— Carina Hart, Poet and author of Your Brain Cells Sing When They Die (The Black Spring Press Group)","brand":"Lit Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49013227061494,"sku":"9789832737674","price":25.0,"currency_code":"MYR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0767\/8050\/3286\/files\/IMG_0003-500x500-1_jpg.webp?v=1756388027"},{"product_id":"9789832737629","title":"Malaysian Millenial Voices","description":"\u003cp\u003eAfter the relative drought during the years since Malaysia first took to the vocation of writing verse in English in the nineteen fifties, we now have in this collection of poems by Malaysia millennials signs of coming shower. By their numbers, they show more clearly than before their diversity in communal origins, gender, cultural interest, and regional spread. As Malaysians, they have arrived, making a home here for poetry in English. Gone is the angst of the poets who began publishing in the fifties and sixties over a perceived exilic condition, the proper language to write in, the country's cultural situation and the lack of literacy antecedents. The language in this collections, as may be expected, is very twenty-first century, a toned-down speech of conversation about ordinary things and everyday events in an urbanised environment. The collection marks on ongoing evolution of Malaysia poetry. I am optimistic that from the poets represented here, there will emerge at least two or three important voices in the decades ahead. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWong Phui Nam, Malaysia Poet \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"QN2lPu\"\u003eIn this enterprising collection, new voices, while lamenting the loss of parents and grandparents, also illuminate, to celebrate the ironic ruptures between generations. Their words, original and edgy, splice paradox and heterodoxy, as in a poem's title, \"How to paint the rainbow when you're colour blind.\" Or in declaring to Anglophone readers in an ESL nation, \"My mother's handwriting is neurotic, \/ perfectly curved in large loops and small squiggles.\/ You can tell, English is not her fist language - \/ each letter is painstakingly formed, as if wary of mistake. \/ [But] My handwriting is intentional, as is my education. \/ You can tell, English is my language.\" In a multilingual world where so much seems \"lost in translation,\" \"nothing's lost. 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