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Admission Requirements
Admission Requirements | Phoebe Wang
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A Globe and Mail Best Book A debut collection from a startling new voice in Canadian poetry. The poems in Admission Requirements attempt to discover what is required of us when we cut across our material and psychic geographies. Simultaneously full and empty of its origins, the self is continually taxed of any certainties and ways of being. The speaker in these poems is engaged in a kind of fieldwork, surveying gardens, communities, and the haphazard cityscape, where the reader is presented with the paradoxes of subsumed histories. With understated irony and unsettling imagery, the poems address the internal conflicts inherent in contemporary living.
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Lunchtime poetry with tea, lemon sour cream tart, and coconut wafers. Subtle, under-the-table photobomb by Casey.

tjwill I love your teacup and saucer!
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xicanti @tjwill thanks! I have the cup to match the plate, too, but it‘s on hiatus while I revel in this newer one. 6y
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This was my first time reading anything written by Phoebe Wang and I was struck by the imagery that Wang created in her prose. She plays with a number of different elements in her poetry that I found fascinating. The book is divided into 2 sections, one with shorter poems and the other with long-form poems. I recommend you check it out if you're looking to reading more poetry by WOC.