First Contact

Name: First Contact
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By: Liu, Warren

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Paperback | 15 April 2026

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Something on the horizon inches toward the drunken villagers of Zonal Beach, but what-or who-could it be? In IFirst Contact/I, Warren Liu presents a hilarious, polyphonic poem that narrates the agonizingly slow-motion progress of a first contact encounter between coastal natives and shipwrecked would-be colonizers. Liu's wry, humorous poetry uses three distinct voices to highlight the inherent farce of coming up against a world entirely different from one's own. Slipping between tropes of colonial myth-making and alien encounters, Liu animates the strange, slanted rhymes of history with a voracious wit and deft ear. Whether narrating the choral chatter of the bewildered villagers or a mystic's pop-culture-informed oracular visions or the epistolary reminiscences of a lost exile, Liu demonstrates again and again how colliding with a new culture always happens first as farce, then as farce once more.brBWarren Liu/B (born 1971) is a professor of English at Scripps College in Claremont, California.

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