Marylyn Tan’s Gaze Back: A Poetic Exploration of Identity and Return

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Georgia Review Books, paperback

Publication Date: March 1, 2022

Publisher Marketing: In 2020, this debut volume shocked Singapore’s literary world by winning the country’s premier English-language poetry prize, making its then twenty-seven-year-old author the first woman to ever win the award. Moreover, it is not a polite book. It is an instruction book, a grimoire, a call to insurrection to wrest power back from the social structures that serve to restrict, control, and distribute it among those few privileged above the disenfranchised. It is a poetic call to arms.

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