Professions Condition:Well Read they show us not only

they show us not only how we lose ourselves but how we might find ourselves too

in this magical sequel

for one man's disaster is another man's fortune

Persia and across the great Arab empire

And sixty years after their first murder

Professions Condition:Well Read they show us not onlyProfessions is a poet's directory of heartbreak. The backbone of this collection is a cycle of fractured relationships, where professional preoccupations tear lovers apart as distrust and incomprehension brew. Set against this are glimpses of indestructible intimacy between a mother, a granddaughter, and a friend. Amanda Chong's poems observe the doomed practice of the heart: solitary experiences, never fully nor mutually understood until too late.