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Butcher's Tree

By (author) Feng Sun Chen

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In the poems of Feng Chen’s darkly spellbinding debut collection, Butcher’s Tree, the page evokes and provokes legendary creatures, kills them and puts on their skin—then cures the meat. This startling and unusual book is a medium that channels damned and contaminated creatures such as Grendel, Wukong, and Prometheus. It reconsiders what it means to construct a myth; to mold around a hollow space a materiality of shape that depends on contours without content. Life that has no life. These are love poems whose monstrous repetition demystifies these once powerful beings while at the same time plunging deeper into insensible consciousness, where the human ceases to retain its proper form.

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Publisher | Black Ocean
Published date | 24 May 2012
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Format | Paperback / softback
Pages | 104
Dimensions | 196 x 152 x 0mm (L x W x H)
Weight | 172g
ISBN | 978-0-9844-7524-7
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BISAC | poetry / general


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