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In the department of peace, Bonnie Wai-Lee Kwong invites us to a gathering of voices where each utterance matters. Kwong ventures into different languages and registers, time periods and places. From sailors' prayers to a mother's songs to a lover's last words, all lines render the contours of the poet's extraordinary sensibility.

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Bonnie Wai-Lee Kwong works in many mediums: poetry, music, theater, performance, video and software. Born in Wisconsin and raised in Hong Kong, she lived in the San Francisco Bay Area for two decades before returning to Hong Kong to care for her mother. She can still be spotted in California from time to time, visiting her two children. The department of peace is Kwong's third book of poetry, following The Quenching (Finishing Line Press) and ravel (Neopoesis Press). Renku.earth, an Elixir application she built for writing poetry collaboratively, was a runner-up for the 2024 Elixir Consultancy Prize from the consultancy firm Erlang Solutions.

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