Analysis: 規範野蠻人的歌曲集
29 April 2021 (Songbook of the Canonical Barbarian) Hong Kingston’s Inquiry of Americanism and Literary Slums in The Woman Warrior “But America has been full of machines and ghosts — Taxi Ghosts... Read More
just a thought.
Still. Still as in calm. Still as in stationary. Still as in even now. There’s twigs and dirt stuck in your hair, and still you’re beautiful. You snore and mumble nonsense sometimes when you sleep... Read More
a poor sonnet
Don't think too far ahead, don't dream too big. Sober up your brain cells, make high hopes lead. Sugar-sweet words will snap you like a twig. Mountains like clouds are best left in bed. And I shouldn'... Read More
Analysis: The Mirror Dimension
5 March 2021 Radcliffe and Paradoxical Terrors The sky splits open, roads and traffic driving out from the clouds. Buildings unfold, brick giving way to brick, lines slicing parallel and symmetric. Sl... Read More
Analysis: Silence and Sanctuary
6 October 2020 Voice and Silence in Roy’s The God of Small Things Two sentences in and the reader meets the river. Within the first pages the river is easily overlooked as a simple geological featur... Read More
Analysis: The Pharmakon of Time
27 September 2020 Close Reading Gaskell’s Mary Barton “‘Listen!’ said Margaret, as she stooped her head down to catch the muttered words more distinctly. “‘What will mother say? The bees a... Read More
A Birth Scene
He’s born in the middle of the woods. He’s born beneath stars scattered across the sky, disorganized and unaware they’re that way. If he waited a month he could’ve had a bed and sterile hospit... Read More