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Enter the Chrysanthemum

Enter the Chrysanthemum


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This is a luminous collection that takes us on a keen-eyed journey from childhood to parenthood: from a child's perspective of her parents, through to the transition to adulthood as a single parent, then finally to the witnessing of a parent's decline and death. Lam details the slow and sometimes painful transformation into motherhood, the transition of generations, the inherent politics behind relationships, and the essential solitude and struggle of being outside the traditionally defined family. In her title poem "Chrysanthemum", Lam remembers her mother's gentle hand with the watercolour brush: "Then, from the finest brush, the outline/ of each petal. Flesh flowed from the fuller one,/ tipped with yellow or lavender,/ until every crown had bloomed/ amid the throng of leaves./ How her hand knew paper through brush/ If only I had been paper,/ that upturned and delicate face,/ stroked and stroked again with such/ precise tenderness, such a patient hand". Lam's new collection is fundamentally as much an exploration of profound loss as it is of love and an individual's reconnection to humanity. This is her second book of poetry.

About the Author :
Fiona Tinwei Lam is a Scottish-born Vancouver writer whose work has appeared in Canadian literary magazines and anthologies. She is a former lawyer, and now dedicates her time to writing and being a single parent to her young son.

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"[Lam] describes intense moments in life: aching loss, the inability to reclaim.... Her surface rhythm and clarity create both overt meaning and the impression that there is much more just below the finely crafted surface. She is adept in creating a kind of redemption through tightly constructed lines...." -- Kim Morden, Event "A single mother struggles with the banal tragedies of a particular life: the experience is commonplace, but Lam expresses it with distinctive tenderness, restraint and intensity. She elevates the collection's remarkably consistent voice into one that recalls and transcends the specific truth of her own life to articulate the common truths of others.... Enter the Chrysanthemum is one of those rare books of poetry that compels one to read on until the end." -- Martin Alexander, Cha Literary Journal "Just like the versatile flower, each poem in Fiona Tinwei Lam'sEnter the Chrysanthemum transcends the immediacy of its imagery and delivers singular moments into the realm of the profound and universal. In these poems, Lam plucks out everyday interactions that, while seemingly innocent and familiar, cover the tenuous connections that lie at the heart of human relationships." -- Pacific Rim Review of Books, vol. 7 No. 1 p. 38


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781894759328
  • Publisher: Caitlin Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Caitlin Press
  • Height: 140 mm
  • No of Pages: 86
  • Weight: 130 gr
  • ISBN-10: 189475932X
  • Publisher Date: 01 May 2009
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Width: 205 mm


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