Below read an excerpt from https://everything.is with a Vietnamese translation by Quyên Nguyễn-Hoàng. This poem is best viewed on desktop. Read Nazry Bahrawi’s interview the writer and translator here.
Samuel Caleb Wee is an Assistant Professor of English at Nanyang Technological University whose creative work has appeared in publications such as Esquire, QLRS, and OF ZOOS. He previously co-edited this is how you walk on the moon (Ethos Books, 2016), an anthology of experimental short fiction. https://everything.is is his first book of poetry.
Quyên Nguyễn-Hoàng is a writer-translator living in Vietnam. Her recent translations include Chronicles of a Village (Yale University Press, a novel by Nguyễn Thanh Hiện) and https://everything.is/ (AJAR Press, a poetry collection by Samuel Caleb Wee). Her work has appeared in Poetry, Modern Poetry in Translation, Jacket2 and other venues.