Bio

DESMOND Francis Xavier KON Zhicheng-Mingdé (b. 1971) is the author of an epistolary novel, a quasi-memoir, two lyric essay monographs, four hybrid works, nine poetry collections, and a creative guided journal. The former journalist has edited over twenty-five books, several pro bono for non-profit organizations. Among other accolades, he is the recipient of the IBPA Benjamin Franklin Award, Singapore Literature Prize, two Illumination Christian Book Awards, two Independent Publisher Book Awards, and four Living Now Book Awards. Desmond teaches creative writing at Nanyang Technological University.

a
rose
is rose
is rosette
is glass of rosé
hart crane's logic of metaphor
from thought to word, word-image, word-feeling, word-thought-word

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the rose is a rose is a rose is always the rose
our lady of guadalupe
enduring tilma
of roses
stainless
as
wine