Perfact - by Nicole Raziya Fong (Paperback)

About the Book

"Part treatise on phenomenology, part theatrical score on ontology, part billet-doux to poetry itself" (Divya Victor), PEЯFACT is a three-part series of poems interrogating the nature of experience, language, trauma, and identity.

Book Synopsis

PERFACT is a series in three parts, beginning with an interrogation into the structure of experience, language, and identity. The title poem, "PERFACT," is an approach to materiality and consciousness in which each intersect, partaking in a coded interchange. This interchange precedes the stage play, 物の哀れ ("mono-no-aware," an untranslatable Japanese term which might be expressed as an empathy or awareness of things), a "dark night of the soul" whose dramatic interchange leads a feminine "I" inwards and back again, countering the coherence of singular identity with the threat of sublimation. This mystical junction makes way for "MINE," a lineated poem presenting a disassociated clarity marked by absence, survival's persistent interlude.

Review Quotes

"Fong's powerful debut is a text to return to, to linger on, to rest against the palate of the mouth, and to experientially diffuse as a colour palette of verbal potential."--Montréal Review of Books

About the Author

Nicole Raziya Fong is a writer living in Montreal. Her work seeks to delimit and re-construct immaterial ampules of psychic experience, coaxing the incorporeal into inhabiting a more muscular physique. Her chapbook, Fargone (2014), was published as part of the Poetry Will Be Made By All project. Past work has appeared in publications including Cordite, Poetry is Dead, and The Volta. PERFACT is her first book.