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  • Open Daily: 10am - 10pm
    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
The Pedestrian

The Pedestrian

Hsiung, Valerie

Paperback

General Poetry

Publisher Price: $17.95

ISBN10: 1643623117
ISBN13: 9781643623115
Publisher: Nightboat Books
Published: Jul 7 2026
Pages: 96
Weight: 0.35
Height: 0.50 Width: 4.90 Depth: 7.90
Language: English
A poet's novel, a body, a house, where childhood ungrieved meets the horror of displacement.

Emerging from the dark ecology between lullaby and ghost story, The pedestrian meanders down a labyrinth of divinatory time where crimes demand a more defective detective. To conjure the source of this text's trauma, the poet becomes a ritual detective, tracing the wound by its shadow. Meaning emerges through distortion and echo--courting what cannot be seen head-on to create a haunted grammar of grief. An ill pastoral of displacement, The pedestrian turns domestic spaces into underworlds, the body of the exiled child into a prophetic threshold--it listens as much as it speaks, attuned to forces beyond itself.

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