Savage Charm

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SAVAGE CHARM is autobiographical at its core, but also unsentimental, unapologetic, and rigorous in its exploration of such related concepts as self-knowledge, fictional identity, the city, the writing of exile, belief, religion, and the modern subject. The poet brings his distinctive voice to cosmopolitan Hong Kong's English poetic scene with this volume which records his personal experience of the city in the subtlest of ways. Though deeply personal, the poems have a gutsy impersonal touch and a distinctive social tinge. Savage charm is both poetic and philosophical