The Pedestrian by Valerie Hsiung

The Pedestrian

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The Pedestrian by Valerie Hsiung

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The Pedestrian

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A poet's novel, a body, a house, where childhood ungrieved meets the horror of displacement.

Emerging from the dark ecology between lullaby and ghost story, The pedestrian meanders down a labyrinth of divinatory time where crimes demand a more defective detective. To conjure the source of this text's trauma, the poet becomes a ritual detective, tracing the wound by its shadow. Meaning emerges through distortion and echo--courting what cannot be seen head-on to create a haunted grammar of grief. An ill pastoral of displacement, The pedestrian turns domestic spaces into underworlds, the body of the exiled child into a prophetic threshold--it listens as much as it speaks, attuned to forces beyond itself.

Book Details
Publisher:
Nightboat Books
ISBN:
9781643623115
Binding:
Paperback
Pages:
96
Authors:
Valerie Hsiung
Published Date:
2026-07-07
Language:
English
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