Oneiros

By Cyril Wong

2010

First Published

3.97

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Number of Pages

2H04M

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"Wong delivers heartbreaking and tender lines of poetry, as light as a dream's remembrance, as hard-hitting as a dream's sudden flash of insight." —Jenny Boully, author of The Body: An Essay "Hercule Poirot, Miss Marple, God, the familial dead, Walter Benjamin, Anne Sexton and the Road Runner all inhabit the same philosophical and poetic plane...the semiotic field is flattened in a brave thunderclap of reduction, and images begin to drift towards the toroidal opening of the wormhole some might call awakening, others might call death." —W. B. Keckler, author of Sanskrit of the Body "Cyril Wong excavates an archaeology of the self, departing into unpredictable dreamtime where the gamut of emotions - anger, terror, and joy intermingle with the absurd, the funny, the surreal, and the intensely personal." —Mong-Lan, author of Tango, Tangoing: Poems & Art

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3.97

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5 STARS

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4 STARS

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3 STARS

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1 STARS

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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.