Near, At poetry English Ardour is a cry of

Ardour is a cry of intimacy and separation resonant with the affective intensities of form

"Who was responsible for the suffering of your mother

and social bias played out in terms of race and/or class

heart though each member of the corrupt world is also that lover

Near, At poetry English Ardour is a cry ofJennifer Soong Near, At follows the inherent strangeness of ones consciousness as it observes and comes into contact with the physical world. A sustained exploration of language, capitalism, gender, and nature, Near, At traverses and measures the movement of silence against the movement of thought and its pauses. Divided into five parts, each with its own form, and followed by a series of ongoing love poems called MY CHRISTOPHER POEMS, this debut