"The crevasses of Crevasse are geological and anatomical, but Nicholas Wong does not plumb their depths instead, his openings stay with the edges and aftermaths of feeling. In these poems of lyric grace and sharp intelligence, Nicholas Wong has written a bracing symphony to lonesomeness that is disarming, charming, and intellectually tough." "It is especially refreshing to encounter a poet who is as equally adept at excavating the sources and shapes of sentiment and passion as he is at untangling the knotty business of thought and meaning in verse. Wong is given to mad language, he ransacks the known, he's not concerned with my comfort, thank god he only wants to lay me down some knowledge. I am worried in Nicholas Wong's poems-as it should be-and I worry them, meaning I turn them over in my mind because I want less to understand them and more to be able to fit into them like odd garments. "Strange as it is to live in a human body one wants language to give full rein to that strangeness. Other poems by Nicholas Wong in Verse Daily: Described as a “firestarter†by Time Out: Hong Kong, he is on the teaching faculty of the Hong Kong Institute of Education. Nicholas Wong received his MFA from City University of Hong Kong and has been a finalist for the New Letters Poetry Award and the Wabash Prize for Poetry. Today's poem is "How to Refund Your Identity" Verse Daily: About Crevasse by Nicholas Wong ®
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