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5.0 out of 5 stars
A fascinating collection of poetry,
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This review is from: Men and Other - Strange Myths: Poems and Art (Paperback)
This is a collection of 65 poems, many accompanied by original pen and ink drawings by the author, Hilary Tham. It is an interesting and eclectic mixture of poetry. The poems are loosely connected to images of men, be it father, grandfather, a Chinese knight, or the image of the male wolf. The poetry is rich and imaginative, sometimes reflecting cultural experiences of the Malaysian-born author...Many Asian American women writers incorporate themes of identity, race and generational conflict in their poetry and stories. Interestingly, Tham does not fall into this genre. She writes as easily of "Dream Man Ken" as she does of her grandfather taking her to see Wayang Kulit puppets shadow dancing. The poems in this work are collected under the headings "Men" and "Other Myths". The poems centered around the theme of men paint pictures of heroes, family pain, andmissing fathers. They are at times playful poems. Others end with a strange twist. In a poem titled "Fathers(For Sylvia Plath, and another)," Tham writes, "We go looking for our fathers, looking for that time capsule when our world was small and simple," and ends the poem, "Lost in far vacuums of other galaxies we remember sunlight, we go looking for our fathers. If we are lucky, we do not find them." Ths is indeed a fascinating collection of poetry. -- Yem Fong, Head, IDS, University of Colorado, Boulder.
4.0 out of 5 stars
A diverse, emotional and insightful collection of poems.,
By A Customer
This review is from: Men and Other - Strange Myths: Poems and Art (Paperback)
Multicultural is hardly the word for this collection of poems by a woman who has lived as part of both Eastern and Westerncultures. The poems range from 1/2-page odes to "What Men Never Do" to multi-page prose poems discussing the poor choices the Greek Clytemnestra made in selecting husbands. By turns, funny, insightful and sad. As it says on the back: "Men are men and women are ... forced to deal with them." There is a delicate sense to all of Tham's poems that indicates a quiet observation of the world. Her ability to interweave Jewish, Chinese, Christian and Greek stories and experience into a coherent whole is both refreshing and beautiful. Two samples. First, "Cocktail". "The man at the party//so interested in my life//my ambitions, my hopes//does not voice his.// They are evident as his eyes//measure my body parts//like merchandise.//calculating//a likely price." "Ancestor Worship". "It's an old story//about an Englishman// visiting his mother's grave//with flowers.//He see a Chinese// woman spreading a feast of roast chicken, mu shu pork, noodles// before her father's grave. //When's your father coming out// to eat that food? he asks.//Smiling, the woman answers,// Same time your mother//come to smell flowers."
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