{"product_id":"small-droll-things-zhang-ruihe","title":"Small Droll Things \/ Zhang Ruihe","description":"\u003cp\u003eEating your vegetables. Listening to ghost stories. Navigating schoolyard politics. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eSmall Droll Things\u003c\/i\u003e draws inspiration from Robert Schumann’s Kinderszenen to trace how a child comes to apprehend the beauty and brutality of everyday existence. Moving through crystalline poems towards a haunting prose coda, this suite of thirteen lyric pieces offers a rare and quietly unsettling meditation on growing up in Singapore.\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\" A bijou gem.\" —— \u003cstrong\u003eYeow Kai Chai\u003c\/strong\u003e (Co-editor, \u003cem\u003eQuarterly Literary Review Singapore\u003c\/em\u003e)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Droll as hell. What tough poems, like steel traps so finely made one, one takes them for jewellery until one trips them.\" —— \u003cstrong\u003ePeter Trachtenberg\u003c\/strong\u003e (Author of \u003cem\u003eThe Twilight of Bohemia\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eAntoher Insane Devotion\u003c\/em\u003e) \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAbout the author\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eZhang Ruihe has published across creative non-fiction, poetry, and short fiction. She received the Golden Point Award for English Poetry in 2013 and nominated for a Pushcart Prize in 2023. The seed of this chapbook was planted while she was completing an MFA in Writing at the University of Pittsburgh. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"City Book Room ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48135856849114,"sku":"9789811781643","price":22.0,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0630\/9344\/0730\/files\/SmallDrollThingsCover.jpg?v=1782982272","url":"https:\/\/citybookroom.com\/en\/products\/small-droll-things-zhang-ruihe","provider":"City Book Room ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}