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What the fortune teller didn't say / by Shirley Geok-lin Lim.
LIBRA Special PS3562.I459 W47 1998
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lim, Shirley.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American poetry--Malaysian American authors.
- American poetry.
- Penn Provenance:
- Lim, Shirley (autograph) (inscription) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 82 pages ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Albuquerque, NM : West End Press, 1998.
- Summary:
- Written over the last decade, these poems include memories of the author's early childhood in Malaysia, immigration to America, and travel throughout the world, and affirmations of motherhood and maturity in the New World. From her background as a Malaysian Chinese later assimilated into Western culture, she has emerged with her own voice, combining bittersweet laughter and realistic affirmation. This unique voice establishes her as an important poet.
- "Here are the lines of loss--of family, country, self--yet what is lost is found, and these poems probe a woman's many and changing truths in language that will deepen the vision of every reader."--Alicia Ostriker
- Contents:
- What the fortune teller didn't say
- Hands
- My mother wasn't
- Mother's shoes
- At the funeral parlors, Singapore Casket Company
- Starlight Haven
- Ah Mah
- Nonya
- Ballad of the father
- Father in China
- Black and white
- Father from Asia
- Watching
- Listening to the Punjabi singer
- Mango
- Jet lag
- The gift
- The rebel
- To a poet who died young
- The shape of words
- The double
- Immigrant
- Eating salt
- Bread and cheese
- Walking around in a different language
- Lost name woman
- White
- Pensee
- Presumed guilty
- In paradise
- The Holiday Inn breakfast special
- Sexing
- Greenhouse effect in New York
- The anniversary
- Mother in the suburbs
- Tennis
- Tag sale
- Taking off
- Riding into California
- The whistler
- Romancing Bukowski
- Strange meeting
- Huntington Gardens
- New house
- Miranda in Santa Barbara
- Learning to love America
- Starry night
- Monarchs steering
- In California with Neruda
- Oranges
- Self-portrait.
- Notes:
- Poems.
- "September 1998."
- Local Notes:
- Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has ms. inscription on title page: "For dearest Myra, With much love, Shirley Lim NY, 2001".
- ISBN:
- 0931122910
- 9780931122910
- OCLC:
- 40123109
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