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And the Waves is a hotbed for hunger and digestion, self and other, self and self, play and work—work as in ‘pure physical labour’, work as in rest, work as in hookup, work as in the beating heart, as in what we may owe each other. Through these constellations of ambiguous intimacies and queer multilingualism, Luoyang Chen asks—and answers—how one can collapse empire from the abattoir. What surges below the surface of these poems is
the knowledge that godhood and poethood are always relational; what breaks the swell are the dead in resistance to their own elegies. This is a poetry of misbehaving language, revenant memory, calamitous desire, a poetry of I in deluge, and the waves. O, the waves.
—Shastra Deo
