Below - Absence: Poems Condition:Good a miner in the interior

a miner in the interior of Mars

It was published in Turkish in 2002 and in English (translated by Maureen Freely) in 2004

and Surprised by Joy

having left her husband and claimed her independence

A young woman named Aomame follows a taxi driver’s enigmatic suggestion and begins to notice puzzling discrepancies in the world around her

Below - Absence: Poems Condition:Good a miner in the interiorIn his third collection of poems, Cyril Wong wrestles with absences behind the everyday hope of recovering new justifications for a more meaningful existence. His poems move from explorations of love to articulating the demands of loss and memory that drive the desire to poetry.