Minor 10 Numbers - Fa Poonvoralak

Minor 10 Numbers
By Fa Poonvoralak

This collection serves as a definitive retrospective—a literary exhibition encompassing the vast spectrum of Fa Poonvoralak’s career, from his signature "Canto" poems and essays to short fiction. If this volume represents the "Minor" (the diverse forms of his writing), the "Major" is the singular, unmistakable essence of Fa himself—a writer who exists on a plane far beyond human convention.

Reading Fa is an exercise in sublime silence. To attempt to describe his work is theoretically impossible; it is like striking a massive boulder with a needle. Our words merely graze the surface of a monument ten times our size. Fa possesses his own rivers, lands, galaxies, and universes—a realm so vast it is unreachable, yet he distills its entire essence into a mere three lines.

“Do not be angry with me, dear friend,
When I look at things far beyond humanity,
My eyes ache with the weight of it.”
— Page 42

His prose defies characterization. Engaging with his work is like counting grains of sand on a beach; one eventually loses track, but in that process of "counting," a sudden epiphany occurs—a realization as profound as it is indescribable. Fa once placed a medical textbook on neurology before a friend and declared, "This is my work." To him, it was a perfect conceptual poem. He is the only guide who can lead you through the portal of his dimension, where ordinary words wander through spaces of infinite meaning.

Minor 10 Numbers is an invitation to the Kingdom of Letters—a perspective forged from the crystalline sediment of a singular wisdom. To enter this universe, one must let Fa lead the way.


Details
▪️Format : Paperback
▪️Piyavit Tepumnuaysakul : Editor
▪️Designed by ● SM STUDIO | Chirawat Rotaim ●
▪️Published : March 2019
▪️Length : 204 pages
▪️ISBN : 978-616-7196-98-5
▪️Dimensions (cm) : 10.8 x 17.8
▪️Price : 200 THB