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By Hilary Tham

This collection of poetry reveals the author's wit and sense of irony. The poems, about courage and human relationships, use imagery and icons from sacred traditions and contemporary Western popular culture. Hilary Tham makes the foreign, the other, and the past seem accessible and universal.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: Unqualified
• ISBN: 0894107275
• ISBN13: 9780894107276
• Release Date: January 1992
• Publisher: Three Continents Press
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.8" x 0.5" x 6.0"

Customer Reviews

This book has warmth, elegance, and truth.

Hilary Tham is a marvelous storyteller, drawing on her rich life history and experience of many cultures to produce poems which are humane, absorbing, and wise. Particularly recommended are the poems starring her alter ego, Mrs. Wei, and "Ida," a moving and funny paean to grandmothers everyone who show their love for their families "with a plenitude of food." Buy this book, or any of Hilary Tham's books, and you'll come to think of her as a beloved friend.