Block Fables: A Poetry Collection by Chan Ka-long

★Recipient of the Shih Pao Literary Award for Poetry (Grand Prize), the Macao Literary Award for Poetry, the Taipei Literature Award for Modern Poetry (Grand Prize), and the King Car Poetry Award (Outstanding Award) – Emerging Poet Chen Chia-Lang's Debut Poetry Collection

★Zhong Guoguang (Poet), Hsiao Yu-Hsiang (Poet) – Specially Recommended

★Fu Wei (Poet), Li Hsiu-Hui (Poet), Li Chin-Wen (Poet), Chou Han-Hui (Poet), Lin Yu-Hsuan (Poet), Bosen (Poet), Hung Wan-Ta (Writer), Tang Juan (Writer), Tsao Yu-Po (Writer), Chang Kai-Chih (Poet), Chen Yu-Hung (Poet/Translator), Tseng Yung-Tsung (Poet), Yang Tsung-Han (Poet/Associate Professor, Department of Creative Writing, National Taipei University of Education), Liao Wei-Tang (Writer), Zang Di (Poet), Liu Hsiao-Yi (Poet), Hsiao Yu-Hsiang (Poet), Zhong Guoguang (Poet), Yen Han-Chin (Poet), etc. – Sincerely Recommended

Echoes always come from emptiness, and we

will sooner or later become a shell, something that encases emptiness

like building blocks left in a corner of the house, like

us, left behind

at the slide

This book collects forty-four poems, depicting modern life across regions: social relationships interlocked like building blocks; the constant shedding of shells and adaptation in a floating world; the fragile and dark extension of body and mind into a palace of creation; the imitation, metamorphosis, and symbiosis between humans and nature... Through eyes that see through birth, aging, sickness, and death, all things become parables.