Research Catalog

Title

Walking backwards : new poems / Shirley Geok-lin Lim.

Author

Lim, Shirley.

Publication

Albuquerque, NM : West End Press, c2010.

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Details

Description

vii, 84 p.; 22 cm.

Summary

Poems.

Subject

• 2000-2099
• American poetry > Asian American authors > 21st century

Genre/Form

• poetry.
• Poetry
• Poésie.

Note

• "October 2010"--T.p. verso.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Machine generated contents note: Scavenging -- Scavenging on Double Bluff -- Seaweeds -- Fu -- Open Beach -- Sweet-peas -- Burning Gold Paper -- Burning Gold Paper -- Cheap Paper -- Disappointment of 2 o'dock -- I Slip the Catch -- Bless this Bagel -- Eating Fruit -- Home -- The Mourning Months -- Memory Loss -- California Disaster -- Past Danger and Drowning -- Past Danger and Drowning -- Bogie Hole -- Nobby's Beach -- Passport -- Passport -- The Source -- Marble and Peonies -- Blossoming -- Leaves Fall Close -- Bird Sonnet -- Resolution and Retirement -- City Pastoral -- Your First Birthday -- Seminar Series -- Hong Kong Muses -- Two Years -- Feng Shui -- Feng Shui -- Hunger Verses -- Generations and History -- For My Mother -- Letter from Abroad -- Six Ages -- Keeping Your Distance -- Exile's London -- Green Parakeets -- Woman Traveling -- Sometime -- No Place -- Solitary -- Changing Gears -- After Forever -- The Good Soldier -- Writing a Poem -- On Why I Continue To Write Poetry -- Metaphor -- A Curious Book -- Freedom Day -- Love Poem -- The Ex-Lover -- Late -- Three August Poems.

ISBN

• 9780982696804 (pbk.)
• 0982696809 (pbk.)

OCLC

648923285

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library