First Contact - Warren Liu Fiction

First Contact - Warren Liu FictionA formally experimental and absurdist mock epic poem that melds speculative fiction and travel writingSomething on the horizon inches toward the drunken villagers of Zonal Beach, but what or who could it be? In First Contact, Warren Liu presents a hilarious, polyphonic poem that narrates the agonizingly slow motion progress of a first contact encounter between coastal natives and shipwrecked would be colonizers. Liu's wry, humorous poetry uses three

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