In Short, Future Now
Jason Wee

Publisher • Rockbund Art Museum & Sternberg Press
Year • 2021
Pages • 105

The artist and writer Jason Wee’s latest volume of poetry claims the imaginative terrain of Asia as one of flooded ruins and mobile islands, and as times of repair and self-interrogation. Taking cues from renga and haiku forms, In Short, Future Now is a single poetic sequence where Asia appears as an archive of the future, one always already at the cusp of arrival. This is Asia as an event, a post-authoritarian territory, a body in the aftermath of new pathologies and surveillance, a demand, a Fermi question, a wilder post-super-future Asia.

This book was a finalist for the Gaudy Boy Poetry Prize.

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About the Author

Jason Wee is the author of two previous poetry collections, The Monsters Between Us and An Epic of Durable Departures. He is an editor of Softblow journal.

He founded and runs Grey Projects, an artist library and residency in Singapore. He lives in New York.