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In all the time, Xiaoxuan Huang crafts a profound exploration of queer longing, the fragility of language, and the spaces between speech and silence. Blending love letters, fragmented aphorisms, and poems where silence itself becomes a punctuation mark, this genre-defying collection asks: If words can never fully capture what we mean, do we still dare to speak? Rooted in poetic rigor and philosophical inquiry, all the time insists on the urgency of address, even when words falter. It is poetry that thinks as deeply as it feels, inviting readers to linger in the liminal spaces between breath, memory, and meaning. For those who seek works that blur the lines between theory and heartache, this is a luminous testament to the necessity of speaking—even when the destination remains unknown.

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""Paradox and contradiction are such dramatic words when the truth of time is an infinite plane of total coexistence. Huang shows us how the voice of the ordinary - which, put simplest, is Love - is filled with quantum whispers. all the time is a cascading fantasia of the cut together-apart."" - Fan Wu, poet & performer http: //fanwuwrites.com/ ""all my favourite poems dissolve / into essay,"" writes Huang, embedding a thesis into the fabric of this intelligent and immersive long poem. Here the lyrical merges with the theoretical, yes, but also with the tentative, the repetitive, the durational continuity synonymous with existence. When the poet enacts full-body listening, everything holds the potential of poetry, even the gaps, especially the gaps. [The gaps visually perforate the page in parenthetical embrace and Huang offers a love poem to time.]"" - Klara du Plessis, author of Post-Mortem of the Event and Ekke https: //www.klaraduplessis.com/about

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Xiaoxuan Huang is a Shanghainese-Canadian writer, scholar, and educator whose work bridges poetry, critical theory, and queer autotheory. all the time is their second book, following their debut Love Speech (Metatron Press, 2019). The manuscript has been shortlisted for the Fonograf Editions Essay Collection Contest (2023) and the John Lent Poetry & Prose Award (2022). They teach English Literature and Creative Writing at Capilano University and reside in Vancouver on the unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and Səlílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) peoples.

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