An Acre of Day's Glass reveals an effulgent intelligence that tries to find for itself a meaningful place in a multiracial as well as globalized society. In doing so it has avoided the parochial and has tried to place the poet's Malaysian experience within a universal, human paradigm. The collection, as a whole, demonstrates that the concepts about culture, history, and language have to be re-examined so that broader human and spiritual expressions of these important aspects of man's existence can be continually rediscovered, re-evaluated, and redefined.