‘The word ‘lineage’ derives from the Latin linea, meaning a line. It is an account of how things are related in an iterated sequence—describing, for instance, how particular ancestors give rise to descendants in a family tree, or how a species evolves over time from one form to the next, or how ideas have developed over time by being taken up and advanced by one thinker after another.’
Alvin Pang is a poet and editor based in Singapore. Featured in the Oxford Companion to Modern Poetry in English, and the Penguin Book of the Prose Poem, he has been published internationally in more than twenty languages, including Swedish and Croatian. His latest book is Uninterrupted time (Recent Work Press, 2019).
