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AbstractHistoryArchive Description
'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)
Notes
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Dedication:
For my grandmother, Yeap Ah Choo
i.m. 1932-2020 -
Divided into four sections: Paper Boats, The Hymen Diaries, Griefs, and Sweet Truth.
Contents
* Contents derived from the
St Lucia,
Indooroopilly - St Lucia area,
Brisbane - North West,
Brisbane,
Queensland,:University of Queensland Press
, 2021 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
- Singapore Koeli"In the land of our birth", single work poetry (p. 1)
- In My Fortieth Year, I Realise I Am Not Themi"The moon rises above clouds—", single work poetry (p. 5) Section: Paper Boats
- 忍i"You whet a knife,", single work poetry (p. 6) Section: Paper Boats
- A Thousand Crimson Bloomsi"Little ones, let's put pencil to paper,", single work poetry (p. 7) Section: Paper Boats
- Dog Mealsi"The dead women always fed me.", single work poetry (p. 8) Section: Paper Boats
- Rainbowi"The first day, we ate the trout", single work poetry (p. 9-10) Section: Paper Boats
- Couragei"I pour out my troubles to my mother.", single work poetry (p. 11-12) Section: Paper Boats
- Teacheri"My mother tells everyone I am a cheecher;", single work poetry (p. 13-14) Section: Paper Boats
- My Mother, Paintingi"My mother sends me an image", single work poetry (p. 15-16) Section: Paper Boats
- Hungeri"I have told this story often–I see her:", single work poetry (p. 17) Section: Paper Boats
- Fortune-tellingi"When I was fifteen a fortune-teller examined", single work poetry (p. 18) Section: Paper Boats
- My Mother Talks in Numbersi"What is home?", single work poetry (p. 19) Section: Paper Boats
- A New Yeari"Another birthday come and gone–", single work poetry (p. 20) Section: Paper Boats
- Count the Hoursi"We sit by the bed with its respirators", single work poetry (p. 21-22) Section: Paper Boats
- The Calli"I call my grandmother, and she remembers", single work poetry (p. 23) Section: Paper Boats
- Ghazal for My Grandmotheri"I sing to you in the afternoons, grandmother.", single work poetry (p. 24) Section: Paper Boats
- Floati"Hard to believe it was me who held her", single work poetry (p. 25) Section: Paper Boats
- Spring Festivali"The feeling begins in the stomach:", single work poetry (p. 26-27) Section: Paper Boats
- Paper Boatsi"They say the first year is for paper—", single work poetry (p. 28) Section: Paper Boats
- Seeking Heaveni"This grass bed,", single work poetry (p. 31) Section: The Hymen Diaries
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Works about this Work
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Merit in Quietude : Two New Poetry Collections by Eileen Chong and Thuy On
2021
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , July no. 433 2021; (p. 53-54)
— Review of A Thousand Crimson Blooms 2021 selected work poetry ; Turbulence 2020 selected work poetry -
Australia in Three Books
2021
single work
review
— Appears in: Meanjin , Winter vol. 80 no. 2 2021;
— Review of After Australia 2020 anthology short story ; A Thousand Crimson Blooms 2021 selected work poetry
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Australia in Three Books
2021
single work
review
— Appears in: Meanjin , Winter vol. 80 no. 2 2021;
— Review of After Australia 2020 anthology short story ; A Thousand Crimson Blooms 2021 selected work poetry -
Merit in Quietude : Two New Poetry Collections by Eileen Chong and Thuy On
2021
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , July no. 433 2021; (p. 53-54)
— Review of A Thousand Crimson Blooms 2021 selected work poetry ; Turbulence 2020 selected work poetry
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