Book description
Funny, heartbreaking, haunting: Jane Yeh's poems open windows onto
utterly strange - and eerily familiar - worlds. Lonely ghosts hover
around children on their way to school; lilies whisper among
themselves, their heads 'filled with pollen and boredom'. Three solemn
children in a Van Dyck portrait gaze out into their futures. Moving
between high art and pop culture, Yeh creates richly textured poems,
their lyrical beauty cut with a dark wit. How do we face death, how
survive loss? What does it take to carry on? 'O tempura, O monkeys'.
