- Paperback: 136 pages
- Publisher: Proverse Hong Kong; 1st edition (23 Nov 2010)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 9881932114
- ISBN-13: 978-9881932112
- Product Dimensions: 20.4 x 14.4 x 1 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 2,584,087 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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A fine collection of free verse; exuberant and thoughtful. Serious and moral; angry but also loving and compassionate. --international Proverse Prize (2009) Judges
Jeje sees the gleam revealed within the grime: his titular smoked pearl evocative of this interplay of light and dark. For tarnished things must once have been precious, and though Jeje writes of wasted days, he recognises the briefness, the glory of the blaze. … But for all that Jeje sees -- the injustice, the silence and the blame -- these darknesses of the human soul are not total: the night ends, hope dawns. --Viki Holmes, Preface. (Author of miss moon's class)
Jeje's gaze swivels from the intensely private to the trans-continentally public, but he remains ever a self-confessed jack swinger of verbs, offering us luscious, amorous nouns. Lustillusion. Despairconfusion. This profusion of sights and sounds is tender, scintillating, thought provoking. Priceless. --Xu Xi (Author of Habit of a Foreign Sky and Evanescent Isles)
Jeje sees the gleam revealed within the grime: his titular smoked pearl evocative of this interplay of light and dark. For tarnished things must once have been precious, and though Jeje writes of wasted days, he recognises the briefness, the glory of the blaze. … But for all that Jeje sees -- the injustice, the silence and the blame -- these darknesses of the human soul are not total: the night ends, hope dawns. --Viki Holmes, Preface. (Author of miss moon's class)
Jeje's gaze swivels from the intensely private to the trans-continentally public, but he remains ever a self-confessed jack swinger of verbs, offering us luscious, amorous nouns. Lustillusion. Despairconfusion. This profusion of sights and sounds is tender, scintillating, thought provoking. Priceless. --Xu Xi (Author of Habit of a Foreign Sky and Evanescent Isles)
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Smoked Pearl chronicles observations and experiences in Hong Kong, Canada and Africa, and was long-listed for the inaugural International Proverse Prize for unpbulished writing in 2009.
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Well-traveled Akin Jeje observes the human condition in his poetry, but without pretense; is compassionate, and concerned for justice, without being pompous; aware of the many dark themes of this world, but without being depressing; and he's direct and clear, without being simplistic.
He has a lot to say, and is good at it, and these poems are like friends. Friends that you will turn to repeatedly because certain phrases, flows of words, and descriptions, gleam and resonate.
He has a lot to say, and is good at it, and these poems are like friends. Friends that you will turn to repeatedly because certain phrases, flows of words, and descriptions, gleam and resonate.
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Thought provoking
10 Mar 2011
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Well-traveled Akin Jeje observes the human condition in his poetry, but without pretense; is compassionate, and concerned for justice, without being pompous; aware of the many dark themes of this world, but without being downbeat; and he's direct and clear, without being simplistic.
He has a lot to say, and is good at it, and these poems are like friends. Friends that you will turn to repeatedly because certain phrases, flows of words, and descriptions, gleam and resonate.
He has a lot to say, and is good at it, and these poems are like friends. Friends that you will turn to repeatedly because certain phrases, flows of words, and descriptions, gleam and resonate.
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