Near, At Killernova

Near, At KillernovaJennifer Soong Near, At follows the inherent strangeness of ones consciousness as it observes and comes into contact with the physical world. A sustained exploration of language, capitalism, gender, and nature, Near, At traverses and measures the movement of silence against the movement of thought and its pauses. Divided into five parts, each with its own form, and followed by a series of ongoing love poems called MY CHRISTOPHER POEMS, this debut

Translated by poet Gabriel Gudding with an ear attuned to the absurdities of intimacy

and communes with past and future ghosts

The hybrid identities she was forced to embody seeped into her poetry

It is a recognizably contemporary poetry: familiar discourses and lifeworlds made uncanny by an exacting realism

Written over a twenty-year span

The Lights is a constellation of verse and prose

mourning public as well as personal loss

Complicating any flat conception of identity

It bubbles and swerves

dead quiet

and poetic

Traveling deeper and deeper