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What the Fortune Teller Didn't Say
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Title: What the Fortune Teller Didn't Say
Author: Shirley Geok-Lin Lim
Publisher: West End Press
Publish Date: 1998
Pages: 96
Type: Paperback
ISBN: 9780931122910
Condition: New
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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. 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
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