Global City Press

Welcome to the literary metropolis.

My name is Desirée Jung, and I am poet and visual artist from Vancouver, Canada. My portfolio includes published poetry, translation, and fiction. My most recent work, a series of video poems, in both English and Portuguese, speak on the relationship between language, landscape and displacement. The selected video poems for this issue are my take and mea culpa (or individual responsibility and accountability) regarding themes such as our obsessive search for identity, refusal, and stubbornness to lack and emptiness, excessive surplus value and overconsumption, and the lingering of an old, refurbished feudal capitalism we have in place. On a lighter note, my writing and visual art is also an attempt to translate light, despite my hopelessly failing it. For more on my digital art, writing, as well as my video poems, please see my website: www.desireejung.com

The Escapist, by David Puretz

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Nortada, The North Wind, by Michelle Valladares

As you read Valladares’ Nortada, it will be good to read it as a book — because as the poems gather themselves through the book they gain poise and wisdom, intensity and mystery. Simplicity and abstraction, experience and beauty, speak wholeheartedly to one another, and to us. ~Jean Valentine, Winner of 2004 National Book Award … More Nortada, The North Wind, by Michelle Valladares

Our History in New York, limited edition, by Linsey Abrams

Linsey Abrams has written a novel that I believe foreshadows the literature of the future, perhaps even the art of the future. Eschewing traditional literary devices like heroes (who must always somehow be superhuman) and linear plot (which is always goal-oriented), it focuses on a new set of deeply human values–people in the community, both … More Our History in New York, limited edition, by Linsey Abrams