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    Vociferate
    Vociferate
    Vociferate
    Ebook143 pages48 minutes

    Vociferate

    By Emily Sun

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    The poems in Emily Sun's debut poetry collection Vociferate were inspired by diasporic-Asian feminist writers. Like these writers, Emily resists both Eurocentric and patriarchal tropes as she explores the complexities of national and transnational identities, reflects upon the concept of belonging, and questions what it means to be Asian-Australian.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherIndependent Publishers Group
    Release dateJun 1, 2021
    ISBN9781760990237
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      Book preview

      Vociferate - Emily Sun

      BEGINNING …

      ORIGINS

      let’s see how we want our story to unfold

      从前有一个小妹妹.

      it should be a trip … …

      … … to piece together

      flows of stories

      … drifting … pondering

      discovery

      … … … social introspection … travel … love

      agape as well of course

      and heartache

      the heart must bruise until

      after the inevitable climax.

      topics and chapters need some working out

      themes. how should we collate it.

      one larger project.

      we need to discuss this properly.

      fiction? memoir?

      Perspective?

      it’s theirs not ours

      we have yet to experience insurmountable loss

      Il faut que jeunesse se passe

      there has always been loss.

      从前有一个小妹妹 chung chin yau yat go siu mui mui (Cantonese) – once upon a time there was a little girl

      CAUSEWAY BAY

      Before there was

      a 2047

      baptised collectives

      did not settle

      Kashmir

      Palestine

      Hong Kong.

      Home is a memory reinforced

      spun from the ethereal

      大丸

      placebo playground

      grows an economy

      even with the sun setting on the union jack

      Pretty in pink and tartan skirts

      and baby FM boots

      distractions grow economies

      built on land, speculative elation

      There is no rhyme

      only reasons why

      we fly and float

      to your shores.

      大丸 daai yun (Cantonese) – big pill ¹

      MAYBE IT’S WANCHAI? ²

      For 伍姑娘 & 云姐姨婆

      Tape deck, SONY

      made in Japan

      too many places and too many dark spaces

      soft wave radio

      white noise comforts in mah-jeh’s refuge

      masking the sounds of a forgotten city

      Non-recyclable plastic and metal, magnetic tape

      Tony Leung pre-lust but with caution

      together we unspool the tangles and with an

      octagonal pencil, made in the people’s republic,

      rewind

      re-spool

      until the music plays

      the 香蕉船 song

      tonic to sub-dominant fragment

      then the world started laughing

      when I tried to start a joke there were

      too many men in skinny flared jeans.

      香蕉船 heung jiu syun (Cantonese) – banana boat³

      ROMEO WOULD, WERE HE NOT ROMEO CALL’D

      gifted with the radical

      a foundation

      of written culture

      traded for Wuthering Heights

      because it was too difficult for

      everyone else

      a good industrious Christian name

      but more Germanic than Jesus.

      no Germans were in the mountain

      when Wei developed her principles eight:

      点 dian, a strange stone

      横 heng, a jade table

      竖 shu, an iron pillar

      钩 gou, crab pincer

      提 ti, horsewhip

      弯 wan, the horn of a rhinoceros

      撇 pie, bird pecking

      捺 na, press and wave⁴

      but my eternal, my forever looks like

      the carcass of a dragon fly.

      people demand a refund for my

      jade table and whip

      for I dare not dig my spurs into the horse.

      AH! VOUS DIRAI-JE, MAMAN⁵

      don’t go.

      … he takes the eldest to a safer land

      mother’s sensually

      smokey eyes now smudged by sadness.

      … shoeless girl

      poor little rich girl

      everyone else’s

      memories of her Saigon father

      将美金

      挤喺

      埋喺

      藏喺

      腊肠里面

      now works in a hospital

      not a nurse, nor a doctor.

      in America they call them janitors.

      the domestic returns home

      unshaven breakdown of

      protein, sweaty smells of unwashed

      clothes of cinnamon,

      bromhidrosis, osmidrosis, ozochrotia

      no longer perfumed

      nor in tailored dresses

      with imported fabrics from Paris

      never raged

      that she’d leave school

      (no one wants an overeducated wife)

      now she empties an accountant’s garbage

      for a living.

      将美金 jeung mei gum (Cantonese) – American dollars

      挤喺 jai hei (Cantoneses) – squeeze

      埋喺 maai hei (Cantonese) – bury

      藏喺 chong hei (Cantonese) – hide

      腊肠里面 laap cheung leui min (Cantonese) – inside Chinese sausages

      LONG GROVE

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