Book record
Tell Me, Kenyalang
Kulleh Grasi
Translated from Malaysian by Pauline Fan
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.
- Published
- 2019
- Publisher
- Circumference Books
- Language
- Malaysian
- Country
- Malaysia
- ISBN
- 9781949918014