The Orchid Folios finding yourself In a startling turn of

In a startling turn of events

these essays offer fresh perspectives on familiar subjects

Alane Ferguson

and worst of all

but places that evoke a sense of being and becoming

The Orchid Folios finding yourself In a startling turn ofWritten by Mok Zining paperback A pot shatters. An arrangement falls apart. A florist finds herself amidst the scattered leaves of history. At once a poetry collection and a documentary novella, The Orchid Folios reimagines the orchid as a living, breathing document of history: a history that enmeshes the personal, colonial, linguistic, and biotechnological with the Vanda Miss Joaquim, the symbol of Singapores postcolonial hybridity. While the Orchid