Alex Wong's first collection, "Poems Without Irony" (2016), was a book that took nothing for granted, that broke through to the particularity of things and experiences, distrusting and defying generality. Elaine Feinstein celebrated the 'extraordinar...

This first collection is full of experiments with language, form and theme. It asks to be read aloud, it surprises the voice and ear. Simplicity is seduced by extravagance, and vice versa.