So Papa's new collection 'The Hidden Papyrus of Hen - Taui' is out and you can get a copy at Silverfish in Bangsar Village ii.
So who is #WongPhuiNam ...
So Papa's new collection 'The Hidden Papyrus of Hen - Taui' is out and you can get a copy at Silverfish in Bangsar Village ii.
So who is #WongPhuiNam ? Not many know him here in Malaysia because he writes in English. He is well known in Singapore & other English speaking countries.
His poems from the 1960s appeared in Bunga Emas, edited by T Wignesan, and were republished in How the Hills are Distant (Tenggara Supplement, 1968). However, his best-known collections are Remembering Grandma and Other Rumours (National University of Singapore, 1989) and Ways of Exile (Skoob Books, 1993). His body of work has received sound critical study, led by Lloyd Fernando, the novelist, playwright and former Head of English Literature at Universiti Malaya. In 1971, in a paper on “sectional and national literatures” presented originally in Bahasa Melayu at the Konggres Kebudayaan Kebangsaan, Fernando wrote that all of Phui Nam’s poetry deals with “preparations for a kind of self-renewal. They take place in a luminous world just behind the scenes and are more related to a cryptic mood, rather than to the common processes of thought.” Elsewhere, Fernando writes that Wong stands alongside Edwin Thumboo and Ee Tiang Hong as “the three outstanding names in the first generation” of Malaysian poets in English. Of Remembering Grandma and Other Rumours, Fernando reckoned it “one of the first efforts to get to grips with -- rather than moan about -- the ‘detribalisation’ anxiety that has dogged the Malaysian writer for years.” In 2001, Chin Woon Ping also remarks of Remembering Grandma that “the thematics of estrangement and exile found in Wong’s earlier work -- familiar topoi of the diasporan culture of Malaysian Chinese -- are clarified in recurrent, one might say obsessive symbols of pathology.” Singaporean playwright, Robert Yeo identifies Phui Nam’s work as “bleak preoccupations with physical and spiritual decay, death and possible resurrection.” Critic, poet and arts-activist Eddin Khoo says: “Dark and wonderful, especially his new work.” .
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. “I’m older than the country.” He claims “this generation” has been “maimed.”
How? “By being deprived of global language,” Razali says.
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