{"product_id":"burn-after-dawn","title":"Burn After Dawn","description":"\u003cul class=\"tabs\"\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"active\"\u003eDescription\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePraise\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cul class=\"tabs-content\"\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"active\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFrom the gap of two generations, a young Singaporean poet interrogates the victors, vanquished and victims of Singapore’s surrender in 1945. The weighty records of the Japanese Occupation are questioned: air raids, the Battle of Opium Hill, the Alexandra Hospital massacare, Sook Ching, Kempeitai anarchy, comfort women stations.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThese, bound up with terrible family accounts, are examined through poetic lenses, sometimes magnified, other times widened, but unremittingly focused.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“At long last a book of English poetry that dares to sink its teeth into Singapore’s experience of World War Two. [The poems] remind me again of poetry’s ability to unsettle language, to trouble the iconic images and emotions of a moment we think we know through documents, textbooks, novels, TV shows.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e—\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/epigrambookshop.xyz\/collections\/authors\/author_tse-hao-guang-ed\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eHao Tse Guang\u003c\/a\u003e, Author of \u003cem\u003eThe International Left-Hand Calligraphy Association\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Sher Ting’s \u003cem\u003eBurn After Dawn\u003c\/em\u003e is a dynamic, assured, resounding debut.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e—Gabrielle Bates, Author of \u003cem\u003eJudas Goat\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSher Ting\u003c\/strong\u003e is a Singaporean-Chinese writer. She is a 2021 Writeability Fellow with Writers Victoria, 2023 Kenyon Review Winter Workshop participant and Tin House Winter Workshop participant. She is a 2021\/22 Pushcart and Best of The Net nominee with work published in \u003cem\u003ePrairie Schooner\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eGulf Coast\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eColorado Review\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003ePleiades\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eSalt Hill\u003c\/em\u003e, Asian American Writers Workshop’s \u003cem\u003eThe Margins\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Journal\u003c\/em\u003e of Ohio State University and elsewhere.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eShe writes about memory, nostalgia and the places that haunt us in between. Her words can be found at \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sherting.com\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"\u003esherting.com\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Pansing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49164481429801,"sku":"9789819407606","price":22.5,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0550\/0041\/files\/BurnAfterDawn_FRONTCOVER.jpg?v=1724413459","url":"https:\/\/epigrambookshop.xyz\/products\/burn-after-dawn","provider":"Epigram","version":"1.0","type":"link"}