Dark Matter

The intimate details of daily life, the " blood and guts and heart " of the wounds and trauma of personal tragedy and love lost are Eileen Chong's bedrock which she mines with unstinting courage and honesty in this new chapbook Dark Matter . The willingness to be so open and vulnerable lends her work great strength. With heart-rending integrity resolved in a harmony of content and form, this is serious and skillfully crafted work which in its earnest exploration reaches out beyond the personal, towards a higher, life affirming and universal.