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How festive the ambulance : poems / Kim Fu.

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Nightwood Editions, 2016

Canadian poetry -- Chinese-Canadian authors.

Canadian poetry -- Women authors.

Canadian poetry -- 21st century.

9780889713215 (pbk.)

95 pages ; 21 cm

Some copies may be permabound.

In this debut poetry collection by Canadian author Kim Fu, incantations, mythical creatures and extreme violence illuminate small scenes of domestic life and the banal tragedies of modern love and modern death. A sharp edge of humour slices through Fu's poetry, drawing attention to the distance between contemporary existence and the basic facts of life: "In the classrooms of tomorrow, starved youth will be asked to imagine a culture that kept thin pamphlets of poetry pinned to a metal box full of food, who honoured their gods of plenty by describing ingredients in lush language." Alternating between incisive wit and dark beauty, Fu brings the rich symbolism of fairy tales to bear on our image-obsessed age. From "The Unicorn Princess": "She applies gold spray paint to her horn each morning, / hoping to imitate the brass tusks / on the unicorns skewered to the carousel, / their brittle, painted smiles, harnesses / embedded in their backs and shellacked to high gloss." These poems are utterly of-the-moment, capturing the rage, irony and isolation of the era we live in. Kim Fu was born in Vancouver, British Columbia to immigrant parents from Hong Kong. She studied creative writing at the University of British Columbia and she is the author of the novel For Today I Am a Boy (2014). She lives in Seattle, WA.

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