How Festive the Ambulance by Fu, Kim
How Festive the Ambulance by Fu, Kim

How Festive the Ambulance

In this debut poetry collection by award-winning author Kim Fu, incantations, mythical creatures and extreme violence illuminate...
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Author: Kim Fu
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Language: English
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How Festive the Ambulance by Fu, Kim

How Festive the Ambulance

$49.06
How Festive the Ambulance by Fu, Kim

How Festive the Ambulance

$49.06
Author: Kim Fu
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Description

In this debut poetry collection by award-winning 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.



Author: Kim Fu
Publisher: Nightwood Editions
Published: 05/07/2016
Pages: 96
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.30lbs
Size: 7.80h x 5.50w x 0.30d
ISBN: 9780889713215


Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 01/30/2017

About the Author
Fu, Kim: -

Kim Fu's novel For Today I Am a Boy (2014) was a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award, a New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice and winner of the Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction. Fu's writing has been widely published and anthologized, including by The Atlantic, NPR, Maisonneuve and Best Canadian Essays. Fu is a graduate of the University of British Columbia with an MFA in Creative Writing. She lives in Seattle, WA.

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