The Girl from Ermita

& Selected Poems 1961-1998

von Goh Poh Seng

144 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

This collection by the award-winning writer Goh Poh Seng is the first volume of his poetry published in North America. It spans more than thirty-five years of his work and traverses cultures as well as continents.Goh's settings range from the wharfs at Singapore's harbour to a backwater bar in Papeete, Tahiti, from a park in Halifax to the streets of Vancouver. His characters are unforgettable: Fely, a young woman from Ermita who sells her body to support her eight-year-old daughter; an old sailor who has solo-circumnavigated the globe; a Vietcong soldier who loses his family and finally his own life to the horror of the Vietnam war.Even more wide-ranging is the perceptual and emotional depth of the poems. Goh brings a lifetime of love, despair, passion and honesty to his work; with the skill of a master craftsman, he uses the most graceful and lyrical language to understand his world and to bring us closer to ourselves and each other.

• Reihe: Nightwood Editions
• ISBN: 9780889711679
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 01.01.1998
• Größe: 229 x 139 mm
• Verlag: Harbour Publishing