Tell Me, Kenyalang by Kulleh Grasi and translated by Pauline Fan

This is poetry from Malaysia.

Tell Me, Kenyalang by Kulleh Grasi translated by Pauline Fan is published by Circumference Books. This is a Book originally written in Malaysian. This was published in 2019.0 and has the ISBN of 9.781949918014E12.

Tell Me, Kenyalang, by Kulleh Grasi, is a Malaysian poetry collection from Malaysia, translated by Pauline Fan, published by Circumference Books in 2019. It is a Malaysian collection by Kulleh Grasi, where Indigenous voice, bird presence, rainforest, and address move through translation. The poems feel like calls across distance, asking the reader to listen for a world where animal, ancestor, language, and land are not separable categories. I would not approach it as a book that needs to be solved before it can be felt. Start with the pressure of the title, the texture of the translated line, and the feeling of a voice making room for itself in English. For this library, the book matters as more than a record of Malaysia; it is an invitation to let poetry remain particular, difficult, and alive without asking it to behave like explanation.

If you’d like to see international poetry continue and gain traction, consider requesting this work from your local library, or purchasing it from places like Open Books (a poetry only bookstore), Asterism Books (an independent press distributor), or bookshop.org to connect you with your local bookstores.

Check out more of the always in-progress translated poetry index here.