As a first-generation "Asian American woman," for one thing, I knew there was no such thing as an "Asian American woman." Within this homogenizing labeling of an exotica, I knew there were entire racial/national/cultural/sexual-preferenced groups, many of whom find each other as alien as mainstream America apparently finds me.
Shirley Geok-lin LimThe crows that are predatory are something you have to deal with. For me, they also become associated with cancer cells.
Shirley Geok-lin LimEmerging into writership, I have plans to discover my other themes, of nation and country, love and conflict, the body and transcendence, mutilation and wholeness, starvation and wicked plenty, and more. That is, I am already thinking ahead to more writing.
Shirley Geok-lin LimIn the poem "C," the crows are associated with cancer, because I had suffered a cancer scare.
Shirley Geok-lin Lim