Mad Science in Imperial City will possess you with “desires without legitimate names.” This debut book of poetry’s written by Shanxing Wang, a Chinese-born mechanical engineer turned avant-garde poet in Queens.

Words exhaust themselves at unbelievable speed. Is it due to their innate infertility, or the immense river of voids, which devours all words rushing out of mouths before they ever make it to the other bank of ears, or the fact that there exists too many words that we are too afraid to utter, in order not to be hurt or hurt?

Mad Science is political history and personal memory as filtered through a precise, mathematically obsessive mind.

60 = 30 x 2 = days of open mourning and protest before curfew x demands in the hunger strike manifesto = 20 x 3 = date of martial law’s enforcement x sides of triangle = 15 x 4 = days from declaration of martial law to the massacre x sides of square = 12 x 5 = prime hours of violence x the senses

The book’s kinda tough to get a hold of, but well worth the effort –

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