Listening to the Singer

This volume contains some of the most ingenious and authentic poems by Malaysia's finest poet, Shirley Geok-lin Lim. Written in a rhapsodic or rueful tone, the poems portray a wide spectrum of experiences and deeply felt emotions - of joy, love, loss, longing, outrage and guilt. It is a must for anyone interested in Malaysian literature, in women's writing or in the emotional voyage of a writer born in the small town of Malacca but whose mastery of the "reed" and "homesickness for the far away" have helped her to bridge nations, cultures and continents.