Equal to the Earth

New collection of poems by JEE LEONG KOH, born in Singapore, now living in New York. Illustrated with thematic photos. In this book, Koh speaks with a range of voices--ancestral, recent and contemporary--and travels a span of ground to investigate the imaginary claims of community and self. In the center of the investigation, as of the book, lies the great question of love. "Koh is a vigorous, physical poet very much captured by the expressive power of rhythm, rhetoric, and the lexicon. He is also, paradoxically, a poet in pursuit of the most elusive and delicate of human emotions. The contradiction is wonderful and compelling, and so are his poems."—Vijay Seshadri, author of The Long Meadow (Graywolf Press)