"Smart, irreverent, often unnerving, these sonnets smirk, smile, argue and bless. Jee Leong Koh has taken a month of days and rendered a very contemporary version of the artist as a young man. Cash in your paycheck and buy this book."--Marie Howe

Payday Loans: Poems

Literature & Fiction

Koh, Jee Leong

Poetry

Poets Wear Prada

"Seven Studies for a Self Portrait," Jee Leong Koh's third book of poems, subjects the self to an increasingly complex series of personal investments and investigations. Ever-evolving, ever-improvisatory, the self appears first as a suite of seven ekphrastic poems, then as free verse profiles, riddles, sonnet sequences, and finally a divan of forty-nine ghazals. The discovery the book makes at the end is that the self sees itself best when it is not by itself. Contents: "Seven Studies for a Self Portrait," "Profiles," "I Am My Names," "What We Call Vegetables," "Translations of an Unknown Mexican Poet," "Bull Eclogues" and "A Lover's Recourse."

Seven Studies for a Self Portrait

Bench Press

The rescue of a literary manuscript results in a war of words over the interpretation of 107 haiku about New York's Central Park. In the battle of commentaries, what is at stake is nothing less than the meaning of America in an imaginary but highly plausible future. Reenvisioning Vladimir Nabokov's Pale Fire for a technologized age, Snow at 5 PM discovers revolutionary uses, and abuses, for literature and history.

Snow at 5 PM: Translations of an Insignificant Japanese Poet

United States

Gaudy Boy, LLC

In his first full-length collection of poems, EQUAL TO THE EARTH, Jee Leong 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. At the center of this 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). "His poems are like the sexy nerd you meet at a bar, the one you really want to get to know better—with his glasses and ties on and nothing else." —Christopher Hennessy, Outside the Lines: Talking with Contemporary Gay Poets (University of Michigan Press).

Equal to the Earth

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

(英語に続き、日本語でのご案内があります)The critically acclaimed Pillow Book by Singapore poet Jee Leong Koh is now out in an illustrated dual Japanese and English edition. Inspired by Sei Shonagon, a Heian period Japanese court lady, Koh interweaves lists, anecdotes, tanka and haiku into witty, meditative essays. The Japanese translation by Keisuke Tsubono brings Koh's musings to a new audience. In this edition of The Pillow Book, Mariko Hirasawa's charming illustrations accompany Koh's reflections on life and the spaces he has inhabited. After being born and raised in Singapore, Koh studied literature at Oxford University and then Sarah Lawrence College. He now lives in New York City and has written four books of poetry, including The Pillow Book which was nominated for the Singapore Literature Prize. English with full Japanese Translation.
ニューヨーク在住の、気鋭のシンガポール詩人ジー・リオン・コーによる最新作にして初邦訳作『The Pillow Book/マクラノソウシ』(シンガポール文学賞ノミネート作品)。
清少納言「枕草子」にインスパイアされて執筆された本書は、詩やエッセイ、俳句や短歌など様々な形式と主題を混ぜ合わせながら、自身の経験と思索に、シンガ ポールや日本やアメリカの文化を自在に織り込んだ、風通しの良い断片集です。詩人の瑞々しい感性によって編まれた、時に柔らかく時に鋭い言葉の数々を、平澤まりこによるチャーミングなイラスト満載の英語/日本語バイリンガル版でお届けします。 ––––––33歳になった年に、ニューヨークシティに引っ越した。はたして僕はゲイで詩人なのか、答えを見つけるために。 (ジー・リオン・コー、『The Pillow Book/マクラノソウシ』より)

The Pillow Book: English-Japanese Illustrated Edition マクラノソウシ（日本語・英語イラスト入り版）

Awai Books

A new Canterbury Tales for our time, Sample and Loop tells the story of the migration of Singaporeans to the United States of America, rendering the surprising trajectory of lived experience in musical verse. Based on personal interviews, these poems together tell a part of the story of the migration of Singaporeans to the United States of America. A new Canterbury Tales for our time, Sample and Loop traces the nonlinear, multidimensional, and surprising trajectory of lived experience in musical verse. Here are the Ceramicist, the Pediatrician, the Scenic Designer, the Chef, the Porn Star, and a host of other migrant-pilgrims sharing the tales of their lives even as they continue to make those lives in a country not of their birth. By narrating their discoveries, troubles, hopes, and sorrows, they refract a powerful beam of light on both countries and compose a wayward music for the road.

Sample and Loop: A Simple History of Singaporeans in America

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