{"product_id":"three-durians","title":"Three Durians","description":"\u003cp\u003eTroy 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLike 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThese 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThey 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Troy Wong","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67901277765911,"sku":"9781764449120","price":20.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0818\/9132\/8279\/files\/9781764449120.jpg?v=1792649250","url":"https:\/\/amplifybookstore.com\/products\/three-durians","provider":"Amplify Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}