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Issue Details: First known date: 2018... 2018 Seeking Heaven
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Notes

  • Epigraph:

    And in the hollow of my ink-stained palms
    swallows will make their nest.

    ‘Reborn’, Forugh Farrokhzad
    translated from the Farsi by Sholeh Wolpé

    Author's note: This is part of a series of ekphrastic poems presented alongside ‘Hyphenated’ at The Substation. ‘Seeking Heaven’ responds to Sofi Basseghi’s ‘Elusive Paradise’.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon Peril : An Asian-Australian Journal Hyphenated X Peril no. 33 2018 14202911 2018 periodical issue 2018
  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon A Thousand Crimson Blooms Eileen Chong , St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 2021 20534205 2021 selected work poetry

    'Eileen Chong’s luminous poetry examines the histories – personal, familial and cultural – that form our identities and obsessions.

    'A Thousand Crimson Blooms is a deepening of her commitment to a poetics of sensuous simplicity and complex emotions, even as she confronts the challenges of infertility or fraught mother–daughter relations. Entwined throughout are questions of migration and belonging.

    'Viewed as a whole, this collection is a field of flowers, aflame with light.'' (Publication summary)

         St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 2021     pg. 31 Section: The Hymen Diaries
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