{"product_id":"ginsberg-sing-me-a-jiwang-song","title":"Ginsberg, sing me a jiwang song!","description":"\u003cul class=\"tabs\"\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"active\"\u003eDescription\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\u003eInterspersing lyric poetry, photography and the heart-wrenching lyrics of 90s jiwang, nor’s \u003cem\u003eGinsberg, sing me a jiwang song!\u003c\/em\u003e is part of AFTERIMAGE’s select range of limited-edition concept-driven chapbooks, making them as engrossing to read as they are beautiful to behold.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis is slice-of-life. This is never-gonna-love-again, but also kiss-me-hard-before-you-go. This is life-in-technicolour, and nor in all their 4C glory. \u003cem\u003eGinsberg, sing me a jiwang song!\u003c\/em\u003e begins with the soaring sentimentality of 90s Malay rock ballads—the sound of karaoke rooms, military camps, and bus interchanges across Singapore and Kuala Lumpur—and asks the restless spirit of the Beat Poets to update itself in this key.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn this mixtape of poems, longing becomes communal, laughter cuts through loss, and survival resounds in chorus. These poems collide Howl with heartbreak anthems and improvise with stadium-sized longing to create a new language for queer kinship, joy and that summertime sadness by your heavenly side.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003enor\u003c\/strong\u003e is a multidisciplinary artist whose works situates identity and community within speculative timelines through frameworks of gender performance, ethnographic portraits and transnational histories.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003enor is the author of \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/epigrambookshop.xyz\/products\/homesick\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"\u003e\u003cem\u003ehomesick\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e (Ethos Books, 2025). Their writings have been in places such as \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/epigrambookshop.xyz\/products\/singa-pura-pura-malay-speculative-fiction-from-singapore\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eSinga-Pura-Pura: Malay Speculative Fiction from Singapore\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e (2021); \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/epigrambookshop.xyz\/products\/making-kin-ecofeminist-essays-from-singapore\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eMaking Kin: Ecofeminist Essays from Singapore\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e (2021); and \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/epigrambookshop.xyz\/products\/brown-is-redacted-reflecting-on-race-in-singapore\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eBrown is Redacted: Reflecting on Race in Singapore\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e (2022).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"PMS Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52244663107881,"sku":"9789819439485","price":26.5,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0550\/0041\/files\/image001_b623b413-1e45-48fb-978e-204ef962a289.png?v=1765217555","url":"https:\/\/epigrambookshop.xyz\/products\/ginsberg-sing-me-a-jiwang-song","provider":"Epigram","version":"1.0","type":"link"}