{"product_id":"perennial-counterpart-yongyu-chen-9781643623108","title":"Perennial Counterpart","description":"\u003cp\u003eNAMED ONE OF LITERARY HUB'S 'MOST ANTICIPATED BOOKS OF 2026'\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA poetic study in magical modes of connection over distance - how both friendship and reading are similar ways of being together while being alone.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWritten over several years of solitude, study, and transformation, the poems in Perennial Counterpart trace an evolving, self-questioning practice of thinking-in-poetry where long, reflective lines - evoking both prose and photography - brush against elliptical, fractured modes of film and literary criticism. Anchored by the author's obsessive reading life, this is a book where lyric inquiry becomes its own form of company. Here, the poem is written to remake its writer through glittering connections to a personal lineage of thought.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'Chen's crystalline debut explores memory, nostalgia, and identity in poems that jump-cut between locations - Barcelona, Berlin, Ithaca, New York City...Readers will savor this strong and cerebral study of selfhood.' - Publishers Weekly \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'Are these poems, or exploding postcards dispatched from the land of dreams? Yongyu Chen's exquisite Perennial Counterpart balances conceptual density with a yearning lyricism: always strange, \"unintelligible to the end,\" but intelligible to those who speak the language of rain and flowers. A monumental debut.' - Jackie Wang \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'To be with Perennial Counterpart is to \"river around\" the intimate folds of its letters, lovers, loved ones, literary souls. Like the strange \"fur that grows on a crystal,\" Yongyu Chen's probing language turns mixture into a beguiling poetics of friendship, a reverie for a more elemental and rejuvenated address to our unsettled world.' - Jay Gao \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'What a gift it is to climb into each of Yongyu Chen's rapturous, cinematic, philosophical lines, and find myself in a world that so much and so many insist cannot be...A generous, exquisite debut.' - Tracy K. Smith\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Yongyu Chen","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":51596237144307,"sku":"9781643623108","price":29.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0634\/4284\/5939\/files\/9781643623108.jpg?v=1790193635","url":"https:\/\/www.harryhartog.com.au\/products\/perennial-counterpart-yongyu-chen-9781643623108","provider":"Harry Hartog Bookseller","version":"1.0","type":"link"}