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Jee Leong Koh
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Steep Tea
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The Pillow Book
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2012
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Equal to the Earth
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2009
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Seven Studies for a Self Portrait
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2011
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Payday Loans
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2007
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Bite Harder: Open Letters and Close Readings
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The Pillow Book
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A Luxury We Cannot Afford: An Anthology of Singapore Poetry
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2014
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GASPP: A Gay Anthology of Singaporean Poetry and Prose
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2010
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Ocho #22: Dear America, Don't Be My Valentine
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| The core story—Tilo's relationship with three men, Musa the freedom fighter, Biplab the government man, Naga the journalist—could have come across as schematic, but that it does not is testament to Roy's skill in depicting character and crafting situ ...more | |
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| Well worth reading, though not as uniformly wonderful as Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage. The gems here have to do with the conflict between desire and motherhood—"To Reach Japan" and "Gravel"—or with missed opportunities for love ...more | |
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| Compared to the worldly, coarse, and self-satisfied colleagues around him, Pnin comes off as an innocent unleashed upon an American campus to show its worldliness, coarseness, and self-satisfaction. That the reader falls in love with such obdurate in ...more | |
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| Slim pickings in a slim book featuring the work of younger Singaporean poets. Most of the poems are, unsurprisingly, about family, and most of these family poems are overly sentimental and all-too-pious for my taste. How refreshing then to re-encount ...more | |
"Ypil writes, ‘A parade is a way of walking around a town without leaving.’ The poet refuses to leave old photographs of Cebu alone. In a parade or lyrical pageantry of aphoristic, ekphrastic ruminations, the book becomes a haunted meditation on ti..."
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Jul 19, 2009 08:47PM
I got my copy of Equal to the Earth and have had time to read it. Very impressive work. I particularly liked the Fire Island series at the end and specially the last stanza of 7. Fire Island. I guess that's what we all hope for. And the poem Floor Tiling where the “two designs coexisted.“ Each of your books has seemed to me to be a step ahead, a progression; more concentrated and therefore increasingly interesting to read. So I enjoyed Equal to the Earth very much and am waiting for the next.
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Thanks, Abha, for your kind comment on my ghazals. What is your native tongue? Abha wrote: "hi,
went to your blog and was blown away by your ghazals. first time i actually enjoyed english ghazals, usually they lack something for me, since i write them in my native tongue. try to.
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hi,went to your blog and was blown away by your ghazals. first time i actually enjoyed english ghazals, usually they lack something for me, since i write them in my native tongue. try to.
Thanks! This is helping me to understand the book better. It's our book club selection this month, and I'm trying to like it.I can't tell beyond your three stars whether you liked it or not, but perhaps it doesn't matter so much. It's a good book. It just prbably isn't for me.
