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In poems of memory, psychogeography, desire, and self-mythologization, then telling be the antidote is Xiao Yue Shan's assertion against the malignancy of forceful silences.

By illuminating what has been left untold, these writings present the vivid landscape of a mind layering itself over the world, thinking and speaking its way…


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