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“Poetry as wise and startling as this trespasses on the Anglo-American
familiar not by deranging it but by putting it into vibrant polylogue
with other sensibilities—Plato’s and Wittgenstein’s
as well as those of Thai culture. Padcha Tuntha-obas locates these intersections
with the urgent exactitude and daring beauty of a poesis creating a way
of living in the situation of excess and silence that defines "foreignness."
The result, as you’ll see, is a moving experience of the trans-elucidation
of language by ingenious desire.”—Joan Retallack
“Few
things have changed the terrain of US literature in recent years as much
as the global spread of English. The question that haunts much of this
literature is less what it means to be an American and more what it
means to suddenly be forced to be in dialogue with and in English, like
it or not. Thai
writer Padcha Tuntha-Obas wrote /Trespasses/ while she was living in the
US for several years. And she takes up in this beautiful collection of
poems what it means to be a Thai writer but one suddenly writing in English,
what it means to be writing within the US but not as an American, what
it means to be caught in a difficult embrace with what is foreign.”—Juliana
Spahr
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