Cyril Wong is the author of The Lover’s Inventory, and other works of poetry and fiction in Singapore. Plainspeak: Holes, Lines, Bonny Hicks Whether we know it or not, we still wait for each other to go. Every morning, another sentence appears in my head; I believe these lines add up to a story. Nothing tallies. We never stop trying to become what others told us we...
Cyril Wong is the author of The Lover’s Inventory, and other works of poetry and fiction in Singapore. On Universality Ben Lerner writes in The Hatred of Poetry, “Everybody can write a poem,” and asks if “the distillation of your innermost being … [can] make a readership, however small, a People …?” Maybe because I’m not American or because I was never a...
Cyril Wong is the author of The Lover’s Inventory, and other works of poetry and fiction in Singapore. Fantasia 1 Dreaming of Kyoto in Osaka and growing old in that town where shrines would knock tranquility into us at every turn and a Buddha statue is composed from ashes of the dead. But food would hold no flavour for your curried tongue; ryokans have no proper chairs and the floor is not...