Bøger af Shirley Geok-lin Lim

"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 purchase on the world, and we readers are blessed for her company, observations, intellect, insight, love, and wisdom as our literary companion and guide."-From the preface by Lauri Scheyer

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.

"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)

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.