I do worry about that term, however, for he is different in many ways. Cyril Wong is frequently described as a Confessional poet. A voice that is dead, yet alive, muses on lives that are dead on how people carry the dead inside themselves and struggle to move on. The resultant poems are haunting- elegiac, and here is another twist for the poems are elegies not for the dead but spoken by the dead. The framework for this volume is intriguing, a ghost returns (after a suicide) to reflect on life. Unmarked Treasure takes that as its starting point, but turns it inside outside, for this is a volume that searches for what is hard to to find, those precious truths that are well hidden inside the self: those qualities that are valid but not marked by an "X". In his poem "Arrival" in Below: Absence Cyril Wong writes:
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