{"product_id":"eternal-worm-by-ezra-chiu","title":"Eternal Worm by Ezra Chiu","description":"\u003cp\u003eEternal Worm by Ezra Chiu is a short, unnervingly intimate pamphlet that works through compressed lyric fragments to examine the textures of dependency, disordered embodiment, and queer attachment. The pamphlet sets its erotic and domestic material against a scriptural frame of abhorred flesh, though the register it actually inhabits is closer to the abject-tender: tapeworms, discharge, ants in water, pear-rot, a microwaved bloomer rolled in sugar in place of brioche. Recurring motifs of overdose, psychosomatic illness, office fluorescence, and transmasc bodily self-examination accumulate into something less like narrative than like a mood held under pressure, where pharmacological excess, eating, and love share the same vocabulary of intake and aftermath. The effect is a pamphlet of unsettling economy, alert to cliche and unafraid of it, in which tenderness is never untangled from damage. ABOUT Ezra Chiu: Ezra Chiu is an interdisciplinary artist. Abject tenderness is an overarching theme in his practice. In playing with self-reflection as a device for alienation, he reconciles aspects of fractured or lost identities. He draws from his own experience as a transmasc, second-generation British-Chinese person. Chiu's work walks the line between humorous and grotesque. He greets the kitsch with sombre earnestness.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Broken Sleep Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57658589118846,"sku":"9781918628975","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1331\/9925\/files\/Placeholder_1_421a0267-1ef7-4e77-a81a-f57f6e84a147.jpg?v=1769173530","url":"https:\/\/www.poetrybooks.co.uk\/products\/eternal-worm-by-ezra-chiu","provider":"The Poetry Book Society","version":"1.0","type":"link"}