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Associate Editor Andy Sia: In Stella Wong’s compact poem, an array of transformations is possible. The bird of paradise seems to lift off into the blank space of the enjambment, but in fact exists in proximity to bamboo: “bamboo chairs.” Read as a verb, “chair” offers multiple, even countervailing registers: to preside over, or to confer power, to prop up. What makes the self a crime, Wong suggests, is this multivalence of self, this tendency toward slippage and amplification across the outer limits of meaning and a web of relations.
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I am myself
a crime. the bird of paradise
bamboo chairs.
a black triggerfish
shower. this brutalist
government.
