Professions Condition:Very Good Habit 3: Put First Things

Habit 3: Put First Things First

and hilarious debut novel about love

Salvador Dali

What happens when you are doomed to repeat your actions over and over

and spends his nights spinning baroque tales about the city's underworld

Professions Condition:Very Good Habit 3: Put First ThingsProfessions 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.