poetry that exerts pressure at every point, and so achieves a momentary rest
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Bench Press Jee Leong Koh will be reading from EQUAL TO THE EARTH on November 23 (Mon), 6-8 pm; Cornelia Street Cafe, 29 Cornelia Street, NYC; $7 cover; with Elizabeth Harrington and Jackie Sheeler.
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Grady Harp reviews Jee Leong Koh's "Equal to the Earth" in Poets and Artists (O&S, November 2009): "He is an important poet worthy of wide attention." http://issuu.com/didimenendez/docs/osnov
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"Equal to the Earth" is alchemically reviewed by Eshuneutics: http://eshuneutics.blogspot.com/2009/08/
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is introduced to the reader/buyer (hopefully) by an appropriate image. The photograph by Kent Mercurio (a coincidental hermetical name) shows a shoreline, the solidity of matter, and beyond this the sea caught in a swathe of light.Equal to the Earth is a compelling new volume of poems. ...
Bench Press Jee Leong Koh interviewed on The Joe Milford Radio Show. Hear him on his Singaporean background, art and autobiography, the mythic sea, the use of meter and form, humor, objective correlative, Chinese homosexuals, and love: http://joemilfordpoetryshow.com/
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Read reviews of Koh's book "Equal to the Earth" here: http://www.lulu.com/content/paperback-bo
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Equal to the Earth by Jee Leong Koh (Book) in Poetry : New collection of poems by JEE LEONG KOH, a gay poet born and bred in Singapore, educated at Oxford, now living and teaching in New York. Illustrated with thematic photos.
Bench Press Bench Press publishes its first title, Jee Leong Koh's EQUAL TO THE EARTH. Read and hear a poem from the book on the press website: http://benchpresspoetry.com.
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In his first full-length collection, Koh speaks with a range of voices--ancestral, recent and contemporary--and travels a span of ground to investigate the imaginary claims of community and self. At the center of this investigation, as of the book, lies the great question of love.
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