What The Fortune Teller Didn't Say

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Format: Paperback, 83pp.
ISBN: 0931122910
Publisher: West End Press
Pub. Date: May 1998
 

ABOUT THE BOOK

From The Publisher

     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.

FROM THE BOOK

Table of Contents

 What the fortune teller didn't say 3
 Hands 5
 My mother wasn't 6
 Mother's shoes 8
 At the funeral parlors, Singapore Casket Company 9
 Starlight Haven 11
 Ah Mah 13
 Nonya 15
 Ballad of the father 17
 Father in China 19
 Black and white 21
 Father from Asia 23
 Watching 24
 Listening to the Punjabi singer 25
 Mango 26
 Jet lag 27
 The gift 31
 The rebel 33
 To a poet who died young 34
 The shape of words 36
 The double 37
 Immigrant 38
 Eating salt 39
 Bread and cheese 40
 Walking around in a different language 41
 Lost name woman 42
 White 43
 Pensee 44
 Presumed guilty 46
 In paradise 51
 The Holiday Inn breakfast special 52
 Sexing 53
 Greenhouse effect in New York 54
 The anniversary 56
 Mother in the suburbs 58
 Tennis 60
 Tag sale 61
 Taking off 63
 Riding into California 64
 The whistler 65
 Romancing Bukowski 67
 Strange meeting 68
 Huntington Gardens 69
 New house 70
 Miranda in Santa Barbara 71
 Learning to love America 74
 Starry night 75
 Monarchs steering 76
 In California with Neruda 77
 Oranges 80
 Self-portrait 82