This collection of poetry reveals the author's wit and sense of irony. The poems, about courage and human relationships, use imagery and icons from sacred traditions and contemporary Western popular culture. Hilary Tham makes the foreign, the other, and the past seem accessible and universal.

Tigerbone Wine (Poems)

Literature & Fiction

Tham, Hilary

Poetry

Passeggiata Pr

Tigerbone Wine: Poems

Three Continents Pr

These memoirs, interspersed with poems, reveal the many images, cultures and myths out of which Hilary Tham's poetry has emerged. She recalls a life of many textures, from her Chinese ancestry and university studies, to her marriage to a US Peace Corps volunteer and conversion to Christianity.

Lane With No Name: Memoirs & Poems of a Malaysian-Chinese Girlhood

Hilary Tham's memoirs reveal the many images, cultures, myths, and memories out of which her poetry has emerged. Tham recalls a life of many textures: her Chinese ancestry, her family's life in Malaysia, her early education and conversion to Christianity, her university studies, marriage to a U.S. Peace Corps volunteer, and more. Amidst memories of her raffish father and inspired, over-worked mother are stories of monkey raids, egg noodles, a lascivious Buddhist monk, marriages, funerals, neighbors - and the breaching of taboos. The poems interspersed in the text and the "family album" photographs enrich this narrative of a life in which poetry, passion, warmth, stubbornness, community, and clarity of thought all play leading roles.

Lane With No Name: Memoirs and Poetry by a Malaysian-Chinese Girl

Biographies & Memoirs

Community & Culture

Bad Names for Women (Word Works capital collection)

Word Works

One long poem threaded with personal, evocative poetry constantly moving. A Zen journey. A journey of love. The Absence of Zen. Becoming Jewish. The Kaddish. Blessings. A very readable work of what was known before and what is known now. From "The world is a hard place": 
We look at our empty hands and feel shadows and shade, sky drying where water has bee, and are left with wind, know them only by their absence. Water. Wind. -- Melissa Bell review in VISIONS-International 2001

Counting

Travel poems illustrated by the poet.

Reality Check & Other Travel Poems & Art

Kings Estate Press

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