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