{"id":572,"date":"2012-06-15T19:35:08","date_gmt":"2012-06-15T19:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/library.ryerson.ca\/asianheritage\/authors\/phoebe-tsang\/"},"modified":"2024-08-12T12:57:29","modified_gmt":"2024-08-12T16:57:29","slug":"tsang","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/authors\/tsang\/","title":{"rendered":"Phoebe Tsang"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Phoebe Tsang describes herself as a Hong-Kong born Chinese, British and Canadian poet, author, librettist and playwright. She earned a B.Sc. in Architecture from the University of London. Now living in Toronto, Tsang is a professional classical violinist.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Poetry<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Contents of a Mermaid’s Purse<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Toronto: Tightrope Books, 2009.
PS8639 .S24 C65 2009<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Publisher’s Synopsis (From its website)<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

These poems are an existential exploration of love and mortality via fairytales and nature. Travelling freely among the shattered confines of identity and gender, travel and environment, the dreamlike narrative unfolds in lyric language, telling of love lost and found, and mythologies that inform the journey with passages in the rhythm of fairytales.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Fiction (Short stories)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Setting Fire to Water<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Saskatoon: Thistledown Press, 2022.
Forthcoming May 2022<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Publisher’s Synopsis (From its website)<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

A young Asian woman, an artistic over-achiever turned drifter, endures a mind-bending night of reckoning as she struggles to find her way \u201chome,\u201d careening between flirtation and thievery, dream and memory. A reality TV star obsesses about the real stain that blemishes the set of her fake, made-for-TV life. A modern fairytale is told from the point of view of a fox having an argument with its enemy, hunger. A heart-broken accountant goes on a pilgrimage to India to get his fire back, and his attempt to attain mercy from the most holy of rivers fizzles like his former fianc\u00e9e\u2019s tepid devotion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The seventeen stories in Setting Fire to Water<\/em> unfold outside the Canadian mainstream, where longing\u2014for home, for love, for artistic achievement, for spiritual fulfillment\u2014is a given, and acceptance\u2014of self, of the knowability of others, of the limits to knowing\u2014is always in question. Using unconventional storylines and slippages in time and space, these stories explore the mystical possibilities inherent in contemporary life.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Tsang’s personal website<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Publisher Tightrope Books<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Publisher Thistledown Press<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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