Crossing the chopsticks and other poems/ Heng Siok Tian



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Crossing the chopsticks and other poems/ Heng Siok Tian

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"Interiors', 'Words' and 'Sights & Sounds'. The poems in 'Interiors' establish the parameters and content of what can be called Heng's primary world. Those under "Words" demonstrates the way Heng sets about establishing the potency of key words.Taken through or placed in significant contexts, broadened and intensified adjectivally, they function as shorthand, as signposts, acquiring the status of correlatives of fundamental perceptions and values. Poems under 'Sights & Sounds' move outside Heng's private, deeply personal world into the larger one that surrounds her..

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Title
Crossing the chopsticks and other poems/ Heng Siok Tian
Creators
  • Heng, Siok Tian
Subject
  • Singaporean poetry (English)
Publisher
  • UniPress,
  • National Library Board Singapore,
Digital Description
application/pdf, xv, 85 p.
Table of Contents
  • take three -- I pluck the moon -- A princess -- Invigilating science practical -- Diary entries of a clothes-peg -- Space -- One day in passing -- A cactus thorn -- When fairies die -- East wind -- Words. A friend of the Scholar Gypsies (I) -- A friend of the Scholar Gypsies (II) -- Words on a turn-table -- Clouds are crying --Skating -- Once upon a time ... -- Impulse (I) & (II) -- Half-metaphors -- Villanelles & movies -- Cross cultural exchange -- Portrait -- Sights and sound. Snapshot -- A Brueghel day -- Guppies -- A butterfly -- On reading Chieko's Sky -- On reading The Dragon Can't Dance -- A personal review: Ballad of Narayama -- Watching "Amadeus" -- A documentary -- On a cloud I wake up -- Phases -- Johore Road, one day in passing -- Naming of parts of a CBD, Shenton Way 1992 -- Sonnet to an arrival: Changi Airtropolis 1992 -- Dramatis persona: Workaholic -- Dramatis persona: Night-time dreamer -- Dramatis persona: Subject "I" -- Episode: Individual -- Episode: Old man -- Episode: CLAYDO -- Episode: A cobbler -- Episode: Young lovers -- Portrait: Girl -- Portrait: Man -- Portrait: Calendar girl -- Portrait: Young lady -- On learning Walcott wins the Nobel (1992) -- Notes.
Copyright
  • All Rights Reserved. National Library Board Singapore 2009.