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In an era when chapbooks or slim poetry volumes (often thematically or stylistically focused) are a frequent standard, Shirley Geok-lin Lim's new book is an audaciously monumental compilation. In her twelfth poetry collection (added to a library shelf's worth of novels, a memoir, short stories, critical studies, edited anthologies, and special journal issues), we encounter a writer's writer in the truest sense of those words. The word is Lim's...

In Praise of Limes is a book of original poems by Shirley Geok-lin Lim. Born in Malacca, Malaysia, Shirley Geok-lin Lim was raised by her Chinese father and attended missionary schools. Although her first languages were Malay and the Hokkin dialect of Chinese, she was able to read English by the time she was six. At 10, her first poem was published in the Malacca Times, by age 11, she knew she wanted to be a poet. She earned her BA from the Un...

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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.

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Shirley Lims poems sing with the defiance of Blake and Yeats, clapping hands 'for every tatter in our mortal dress.' The song is fierce, the vision incisively clear-eyed - supremely mature, an unsentimental perception of humanity and nature. The Irreversible Sun's song soars even in direst loss.” - Anca Vlasopolos, author of Cartographies of Scale (and Wing)

Approaches to Teaching World Literature 39.

The eleven essays collected in this volume describe individual African American, Chicano and Chicana, Native American, Asian American, gay and lesbian, and white female experiences in academe. Representing a wide variety of fields and career paths in the profession, the authors explore topics such as marginalization, alienation, and persistent discrimination, the obstacles women and minorities face in advancing their careers, as well as strate...

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This timely collection provides a critical transnational perspective on some of the complex cultural effects of emerging global! capitalisms and modernities in the Asia Pacific region. Geographically, this vast territory encompasses Japan, the newly industrialized states of East Asia and China, the Southeast Asian countries, Australia, New Zealand, the South Sea Islands, and the Pacific coast of North America. Culturally and conceptually, its ...

Walking Backwards is about making a home when you are a nomad. It is about travel and restlessness and how endlessly absorbing the idea of home can be when we keep losing sight of it.

This wonderful collection of poems by 160 children who took part in poetry writing workshops led by a group of Hong Kong's foremost poets shed an intriguing light on life in Hong Kong as seen by a new generation. Accompanying essays provide a source of ideas for teachers interested in exploring creative writing.

The eleven essays collected in this volume describe individual African American, Chicano and Chicana, Native American, Asian American, gay and lesbian, and white female experiences in academe. Representing a wide variety of fields and career paths in the profession, the authors explore topics such as marginalization, alienation, and persistent discrimination, the obstacles women and minorities face in advancing their careers, as well as strate...