Night Fish: Poems by Kristine Ong Muslim (Out of Print)

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Night Fish is a collection but the accomplished author Kristine Ong Muslim. Her poems explore the existence possible in between the realities of times: past, present, future, and between solid form and phantoms.

Night Fish is a small and perfectly formed chapbook from Kristin Ong Muslim. The poems are populated by ghosts and souls and, in the poem Extremities by seemingly disembodied limbs.

There's also a lot of water in these poems. The slippery water that eludes definition in Hypergraphia:

A watery city of typography. All the pebbles are
letters desperately forming into words. The
handwriting is not quite legible yet.
It is the water of rising sea levels in Night Fish, a beautiful evocation of the changed (and likely disastrous) world we may face in the future:
From now on, there will never be any flat land.
just water. All words will be derivatives of
fixed names denoting the ocean surface bearing
the image of the moon. It's a lovely, haunting, subtly disturbing chapbook.
- Juliet Wilson

About the Author
Kristine Ong Muslim is the author of nine books of fiction and poetry, including the short story collections Age of Blight (Unnamed Press, 2016), Butterfly Dream (Snuggly Books, 2016), and The Drone Outside (Eibonvale Press, 2017), as well as the poetry collections Lifeboat (University of Santo Tomas Publishing House, 2015), Meditations of a Beast (Cornerstone Press, 2016), and Black Arcadia (University of the Philippines Press, 2017). She is co-editor with Nalo Hopkinson of the British Fantasy Award-winning anthology People of Colo(u)r Destroy Science Fiction . She grew up and continues to live in a rural town in southern Philippines.

Publisher: Shoe Music Press/Elevated Books (USA), 2011
Format: Stapled chapbook
Pages: 14 pages
Dimensions: 8.5" x 5.5"