The New Boma

By Hung Q Tu and Hung Q. Tu

If neoliberalism is dying, something worse might already be on the horizon. Hung Q Tu's books Verisimilitude (Atelos 2000) and Structures of Feeling (Krupskaya 2003) attuned to the conditions of this turn two decades before from a San Francisco tech bubble and burst at the so-called end of history. Where Tu's previous books looked ahead to see the finitude of growth and an end to capital expansion, THE NEW BOMA takes a clear-eyed look at where we've been to offer a sober analysis of where we might be headed. Tu's poems counter the hysteric discourse of domestic politics in the US with a transnational perspective on globalized economies in decline. Cultural particulars and emotional registers collide to create localized systems of meaning in which we encounter the comfort and joy, pain and meaning available to us on the way to these freshest of hells. THE NEW BOMA doesn't reconcile so much as counterpose and balance its 'knowledge of insecurities to come' with the 'Sublime Transition' to economic precarity in which an increasing many of us already live.

Poetry.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1733131043
• ISBN13: 9781733131049
• Release Date: December 2021
• Publisher: Dogpark Collective
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 8.8"