Three Durians
Troy Wong’s poems explore his South-East Asian identity, pose questions about his Chinese ancestry and examine his positionality as the Australian-born son of disillusioned migrants from Singapore.
Like the durian, his is an experience of liminality and contradiction, of divided opinions and ambivalence. He questions what it means to be an Asian man in White Australia, exploring performative and relational masculinities and sexualities, and the alternate, possible selves of the old country and the new.
These poems display a deeply considered poetics of extremity: he isn’t interested in performing a palatable version of Asianness for himself or for anyone else. These are poems of wayfinding, of persistence, of a ripe, splitting open of an interior self; poems that arise from mistranslation between people, cultures and countries.
They are fierce, tender poems of dreaming and escape, of the body and flesh and spirit. These poems demand that we smell, taste, swallow and remember them.
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