Bright Fear by Mary Jean Chan

Author:Mary Jean Chan
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Published: 2023-04-15T00:00:00+00:00

her voice – when she speaks in Shanghainese – it is

sweet like water. Her language came to me as in a

familiar dream, a lotus flower sinking into my self

and blooming. During my first month in England,

I learnt the art and science of speaking to reassure.

How else can I survive? It’s so easy to be ashamed.

I am asked why my poems are so clear. I’ll confess:

it’s what happens when you want to be understood.

Ten years ago, I found myself in Nice and learnt to

dream in French, my mother’s first foreign tongue.

That summer, the sea was also my mother, the Bay

of Angels held me in its polyphony, and I chose all

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