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“Forage strikes me as a fierce achievement — a summing up, for the poet so far, of her wisdom and her poetic practice, utilizing two languages and two cultures. It is a formidable fusion.”
—George Elliott Clarke, The Halifax Chronicle Herald
"Forage, recent winner of a B.C. Book Prize, combines social, political, and economic critique with instances of everyday discomfort and joy. ... Wong’s poems always function on multiple levels that expose abuses of power while articulating beauty and employing humour."
—Jacqueline Turner, The Georgia Straight
"[Forage] posits the praxis of poetry—its attention to alliterations and allusions and parallelism and pastiche—amidst larger global conversations on the cultural, the social, and the environmental. It is a writ-large, fierce commentary on the current and future state of the globe..."
-Mark Nowak, Harriet: A Blog from the Poetry Foundation