Poetry. "With tenderness, precision, and verve, acceptance and defiance, Shirley Geok-lin Lim sings a rich song of exile. Here are the lines of loss—of family, country, self—yet what is lost is also what 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.
Author City: SANTA BARBARA, CA USA
Shirley Geok-lin Lim was born in Malacca, Malaysia. Her Crossing the Peninsula won the Commonwealth Poetry Prize; she has published five volumes of poetry, including WALKING BACKWARDS (West End Press, 2010) and WHAT THE FORTUNE TELLER DIDN'T SAY (West End Press, 1998). She has also published three short story collections, two novels, and a memoir, Among the White Moon Faces, which received the American Book Award for nonfiction. She is professor of English at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
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