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All the Time
Paperback
Publisher Price: $20.00
ISBN13: 9781988355764
Publisher: Metatron Press
Published: Apr 17 2026
Pages: 144
Weight: 0.35
Height: 0.39 Width: 5.04 Depth: 6.96
Language: English
A Love Letter to the Unsayable: Xiaoxuan Huang's all the time Speaks Through Gaps, Echoes, and Ellipses
Blending poetic fragment, philosophical inquiry, and spatial rupture, all the time traces queer longing as it moves across language, breath, and time.
all the time is a meditative, genre-blurring work that explores the edges of queer longing, memory, and language. Composed as a durational long poem, Xiaoxuan Huang's debut moves through fragments, love letters, and lyric essays, where silence is not absence but active presence. Here, language stutters, hesitates, repeats--capturing the rhythm of desire, the dissonance of intimacy, and the complexity of speaking what resists articulation.
Spanning the thresholds of poetics and theory, the text uses spatial interruption and elliptical syntax to mirror the body's halting attempts at connection. It is a work shaped by breath and time, where punctuation dissolves into pauses, and pages open like quiet rooms.
At once rigorous and tender, all the time invites the reader into a porous, recursive experience of reading--one that unfolds slowly, insistently, and with profound care. A love poem to time, to listening, and to everything language cannot hold.
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