Thanks to John Deming & Steven Karl at the always-excellent Coldfront, Kim Gek Lin Short’s China Cowboy makes #25 in their Top 40 Poetry Books of 2012.
Not bad for a novel, huh?
Deming and Karl know poetry when they see it, even said poetry is parading as fiction, and their write-up is ab-fab:
[A]s savage as it is entertaining, [Gek Lin Short’s] ambitious story—while bleak—is a marvel of modern storytelling, [with] characters whose stories will haunt you long after you finish the book, and will more than likely draw you back for another read.
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