Like A Seed with its Singular Purpose
By Cyril Wong
2006
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As with his earlier collections, Cyril Wong continues to document the contradictions and frustrations of a common existence with unwavering courage. Language, art, religion, death, and love all come under the poet's unflinching gaze. This country has never known a more lyrical and emotionally charged poetic voice. "Cyril Wong's poems, clear as water, open our way for wonderful and strange journeys through known and unknown places, places where we feel sure of nothing yet dead sure of everything."
- Clarence Major, author of Configurations: New & Selected Poems 1958-1998 "The poems in Cyril Wong's collection are indeed seeds - each one starts something vibrant and new growing in the world. And though he may write of disaster, it is with triumph; though he may look into the darkest corners, he finds a light there that he brings back to fill his poems, and from there, to fill the reader's mind. These are seeds of light that believe in life - so much so that they can look at it honestly."
- Cole Swensen, author of Goest and Such Rich Hour
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Author
Cyril Wong
Author · 21 books
Cyril Wong is a two-time Singapore Literature Prize-winning poet and the recipient of the Singapore National Arts Council’s Young Artist Award for Literature. His books include poetry collections Tilting Our Plates to Catch the Light (2007) and The Lover’s Inventory (2015), novels The Last Lesson of Mrs de Souza (2013) and This Side of Heaven (2020), and fiction collection Ten Things My Father Never Taught Me (2014). He completed his doctoral degree in English Literature at the National University of Singapore in 2012. His works have been featured in the Norton anthology, Language for a New Century, in Chinese Erotic Poems by Everyman’s Library, and in magazines and journals around the world. His writings have been translated into Turkish, German, Italian, French, Portuguese and Japanese.
