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    Wong May’s poems are concerned with the ultimate loneliness, the inarticulateness and the inability to communicate fully that are the marks of human life. “My poems,” says Wong May, “are about wordlessness rather than words. I feel that we must recognize our ultimate wordlessness.”What is most impressive about Wong May’s poems is her mastery of the implicit, her marvelously effective elliptical ... Read more

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    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
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