{"product_id":"9781935717263","title":"First Contact","description":"\u003cb\u003eAuthor: Liu, Warren\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSomething on the horizon inches toward the drunken villagers of Zonal Beach, but what – or who – could it be? In 'First Contact', Warren Liu presents a hilarious, polyphonic poem that narrates the agonisingly slow-motion progress of a first contact encounter between coastal natives and shipwrecked would-be colonisers. Liu’s wry, humorous poetry uses three distinct voices to highlight the inherent farce of coming up against a world entirely different from one’s own. Slipping between tropes of colonial myth-making and alien encounters, Liu animates the strange, slanted rhymes of history with a voracious wit and deft ear. Whether narrating the choral chatter of the bewildered villagers or a mystic’s pop-culture-informed oracular visions or the epistolary reminiscences of a lost exile, Liu demonstrates again and again how colliding with a new culture always happens first as farce, then as farce once more.Warren Liu (born 1971) is a professor of English at Scripps College in Claremont, California.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN 9781935717263. Kaya Press. pb. 112 pages. 20.3 x 13.3 cm.\u003cbr\u003ePublication date: May 2000.\u003cbr\u003ein stock \u0026amp; due 11\/6\/26air\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"Kaya Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47461433278621,"sku":"9781935717263","price":39.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0584\/1439\/9645\/files\/9781935717263.jpg?v=1780618366","url":"https:\/\/wholesale.manic.com.au\/products\/9781935717263","provider":"Books at Manic Wholesale","version":"1.0","type":"link"}