{"product_id":"anything-but-human","title":"Anything But Human","description":"\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eFinalist for the 2022 Singapore Literature Prize\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e“The land is furrowed deep with worry. The angsana trees are\nturning orange with pain.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eThis collection emerges, squeaking and poorly oiled, from\nthis rubbish heap we’ve all piled up. It revels in the transfixing beauty of\nthis last age of man. These poems have dwelt too close to the nuclear waste\nfacility. These poems have traversed through fields of madness for grains for\ntruth. These poems attempt to wring the last dregs out of language. \u003ci\u003eAnything\nbut Human\u003c\/i\u003e grasps for a poetry beyond our collective exhaustion.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout The Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eDaryl Lim Wei Jie\u003c\/b\u003e is a poet, writer and literary\ncritic from Singapore. His first book of poetry is \u003ci\u003eA Book of Changes\u003c\/i\u003e (2016).\nHe is the co-editor of \u003ci\u003eFood Republic: A Singapore Literary Banquet\u003c\/i\u003e (2020),\nthe first definitive anthology of literary food writing from Singapore. He was\nquoted in international media for his tabulation of similar texts in the\nplagiarism of the cookbook by Sharon Wee by Elizabeth Haigh. His poems won him\nthe Golden Point Award in English Poetry in 2015, awarded by the National Arts\nCouncil, Singapore.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"PANSING DISTRIBUTION PTE LTD","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45142845620431,"sku":"9789811822049","price":23.44,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0574\/5662\/3823\/files\/download_31e9a8fb-2a50-482b-8ba5-e43de52a5f40.webp?v=1780481613","url":"https:\/\/popular.com.sg\/products\/anything-but-human","provider":"Popular Book Company Pte Ltd","version":"1.0","type":"link"}