It's a unique experience to read poetry that explores Singlish and English in such a beautiful way. Parsetreeforestfire is a great read for anyone who is interested in language exploration and poetry, and would make a great addition to anyone's collection.

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parsetreeforestfire is a bilingual book of poetry in which poems in Singlish occupy one side of the book, and poems in English on the other. Conventionally such a book functions as a way for a person to learn a new language, but it remains to be seen if translation has successfully occurred, or if the book even intends to teach any reader how to speak either language. Instead, if poetry is intense attention to language, then this book can be considered to be the product of such scrutiny on the languages the book is written in.

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