Praises for Devices of Body
“No one is safe / from touch” Joachim Li declares in Devices of Body, a sharp and fruity poetry collection. Between “Lord” and “Lorde”, “Borges” and “Ostara”, the self is multilingual, relational, and experimental. Poetic forms stretch and bend their voices are “willing to trade / clatter for cadence / prudence for a purpose”. Such exchanges trouble pre-established boundaries: “skin” is “but the edge of a living cosmos”. The poet, bubbling with possibilities, welcomes the reader to a tactile cartography of the diaspora.
— Tim Tim Cheng, author of The Tattoo Collector
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