Singlit: Jason Wee

Description: Here's a special Singlit release! The Monsters Between Us is a signed copy by the author, Jason Wee himsel!

An Epic of Durable Deparatures stands as a record of a friendship between two artists formed in the shadow of illness and mortality. Using the renga and haiku as departure points, Wee wrestles with the limits of art and of the document even as he summons werewolves, ghosts, and other myths. Faced with the inadequacies of witness, this collection moves towards the living in reverse time, opening with obituaries and ending with a renewed beginning.

The monsters Wee renders in The Monsters Between Us are present creatures, some cruelly alive, each shadowed by a long tail of mastery and mortality. With interlocking sequences, Wee shifts from Grimm’s stories to the small frail species among us, arriving at the volume’s central sequence, “Unreliable Evidence”. Composed from newsprint, detainee reports, speech transcripts and redacted accounts, this bravura sequence is suffused with the songs of childhood and the anger of unaccounted injustices. We watch and listen to a voice come of age in a time of great superhero comics and romcom movies, pop music and primary schools.

Consists of: An Epic of Durable Departures (Good), The Monsters Between Us (Like New)