Decapitated Poetry

Ko-hua Chen is a prolific and multi-award-winning Taiwanese writer and the author of more than thirty works of poetry, prose, drama, and film criticism. Wen-chi Li is a translator and editor of queer literature in Taiwan. He is currently the Susan Manning Fellow at the University of Edinburgh. Colin Bramwell is a poet and translator from the north of Scotland.

• 1.Song of Dumbbells2.From the Treadmill, I See… 3.The House of the Mirror 4.Ode to Muscles 5.An Invisible Murder 6.Death of the Last Bodybuilder 7.This Morning after the Sex 8.I Am Curious about My Body 9.Wedding Speech 10.The Necessity of Anal Sex 11.Man Eats Man 12.Invisible Man 13.Flyman 14.Toilet Man 15.Snake Man 16.Song of Condoms 17.Rain 18.Map of a Wet Dream 19.A Nihilist Son 20.Body Poems (Selected)21.I Love the Founding Father 22.Bareback, Okay? 23.Your Scrotum Tightens Up24.I Want You to Swim in My Body25.Actually, I Am a Leg-Fetishist 26.Wet 27.Everyone Likes to Swallow the Bread of Life 28.The Necessity of Bestiality29.Twelve Love Poems for a Cyborg30.Notes on a Planet

"Ophthalmologist–poet Ko-Hua Chen’s Decapitated Poetry exuberantly straddles the bodily and the speculative."