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To Compare

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Title
Title: To Compare
Author: Xuela Zhang
ISBN: 9781964499468
Publisher: Fonograf Editions
Published: 2026
Binding: Paperback
Language: English
Number of Pages: 81
Condition Note: New from the publisher
Publisher Description: A bracing and variegated debut, Xuela Zhang's To Compare inhabits the fraught condition of living in and through translation in the age of globalization, social media, and the Chinese-American neo-Cold War. In To Compare, Zhang navigates the quagmire of transnational life, where one is always both here and away. "Has language/passed you by/like a curvy city/or shielded/and isolated you, /an illuminated vehicle/against the flooding/tenors of light?" Zhang writes in To Compare, reflecting on the nature of translation--both linguistic and otherwise-- as a way of life. Disjunctive, alluring, To Compare poetically represents our contemporary age.