{"product_id":"admission-requirements-isbn-9780771005572","title":"Admission Requirements","description":"\u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eGlobe and Mail\u003c\/i\u003e Best Book\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA debut collection from a startling new voice in Canadian poetry.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe poems in \u003ci\u003eAdmission Requirements \u003c\/i\u003eattempt to discover what is required of us when we cut across our material and psychic geographies. Simultaneously full and empty of its origins, the self is continually taxed of any certainties and ways of being. The speaker in these poems is engaged in a kind of fieldwork, surveying gardens, communities, and the haphazard cityscape, where the reader is presented with the paradoxes of subsumed histories. With understated irony and unsettling imagery, the poems address the internal conflicts inherent in contemporary living.\u003cb\u003eAdvance praise for \u003ci\u003eAdmission Requirements\u003c\/i\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e • “‘Best forget \/ the satellite on your shoulder.’ And then enjoy that edge of anxious anticipation as you consider \u003ci\u003eAdmission Requirements\u003c\/i\u003e; relish this smart poetry as it outlines the con­ditions of a diasporic imagination. ‘The lineup [she’s] stuck in,’ Phoebe Wang tells us, ‘is moving faster than most.’ The ‘lineup’ is, of course, poetic language, rambunctious percep­tions of a mental navigator reciting the biogeography of an indeterminate world. This poetry meets the deadline.” — Fred Wah\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePraise for Phoebe Wang:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e • \"Phoebe Wang's ekphrastic poems remind me that art is not just an object to be viewed passively but is an interaction, worth climbing inside and inhabiting. With a curious, restless mind she experiences these paintings and sculptures through searching reflection and fresh imagery . . . well worth reading and thinking about.\" -- David O'Meara\u003cbr\u003e • \"Startling. . . . Her poems respond to the fluid energy-field borders between life and art rather than to artworks alone. . . . She draws images on the word in the same way that conceptual art drew words and concepts onto\/into the image. [Her work] engages not just the meditations on permanent human experience an artwork arouses, but everything in the surrounding era and consciousness of the viewing, singing, commenting self. Wang's grasp of the contemporary gives new readings to the classic.\"  -- A. F. MoritzPHOEBE WANG was born in Ottawa and currently lives in Toronto, where she writes and teaches. She holds a BA in English from York University and a MA in Creative Writing from the University of Toronto. She is the author of two chapbooks, \u003ci\u003eOccasional Emergencies\u003c\/i\u003e (2013) and \u003ci\u003eHanging Exhibits \u003c\/i\u003e(2016), and was the 2015 winner of \u003ci\u003ePrism international\u003c\/i\u003e's Poetry Contest. \u003ci\u003eAdmission Requirements\u003c\/i\u003e is her debut collection of poetry.","brand":"McClelland \u0026 Stewart","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46302784651493,"sku":"NP9780771005572","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780771005572.jpg?v=1767721062","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/admission-requirements-isbn-9780771005572","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}