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WATER THE MOON (2010)
Fiona Sze-Lorrain
Publisher: Marick Press
Paperback –
Release date: November 29, 2009
88 Pages
ISBN: 978-1-9348511-2-8
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About the Author, Fiona Sze-Lorrain
Fiona Sze-Lorrain Fiona Sze-Lorrain was born in Singapore, and grew up in a hybrid of cultures. After receiving a British education, she moved to the States, and graduated from Columbia University and New York University before pursuing a Ph.D. at Paris IV-Sorbonne. A zheng concertist, she has performed worldwide. One of the editors at Cerise Press, she writes and translates in English, French and Chinese. She lives in both New York City and Paris, France.


About the Book:
by Fiona Sze-Lorrain

Highly energetic and visionary in its dynamic blend of Western and Asian sensuality and heritage, this debut poetry collection by Fiona Sze-Lorrain carries the voice of a polyglot whose cross-cultural experiences in exile embrace the world with a penetrating eye and illuminating wit.

At once tender and grounded, Water the Moon inhabits places in Asia and Europe that are both ancient and modern, political and intimate.  Drawing inspiration from travel, food, artistic dialogue, struggles and renewed passion in Paris and New York, these delicious poems transcend the limits of memory, striking a balance between imagination and reality with intensity, grace and many surprises.

From the book:

Fragile

The sea under our bed
holds immensity for sleepless
hours that belong to last night.
I am moon-fishing while
waiting for you to open
your eyes and cry for light.
Crawling in the sheets, I fear
burying you in my dreams where
your tears drop as water
trickling from the sky, and I am
an instant of devastating white.


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