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- Incense Tree: Collected Poems of Louise Ho
- Book
- 2009
- Published by: Hong Kong University Press, HKU
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Louise Ho is a Chinese poet from Hong Kong who finds her feet in English. Since her first publications more than thirty years ago, her poetry collected here has been a reflection of the fortunes of the city and its people, their hopes and anxieties, their achievements, crises, dispersals and renewals.
Table of Contents
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- Acknowledgements
- p. xi
- Sheung Shui Pastoral 1977
- Writing Is Bleak
- p. 8
- To M.O.M.A.*
- p. 12
- Mountain of Wisdom
- p. 13
- Cherry Tree Wood
- p. 14
- A Confession
- p. 15
- Underdeveloped
- p. 16
- I Hold My Past
- p. 17
- The Sculpted Hand
- p. 19
- Soliloquy of Light
- p. 21
- Notes before Bedtime
- p. 22
- Letter to My Brother
- p. 23
- Miniature Trees
- p. 24
- On the Double
- p. 25
- Local Habitation 1994
- What’s in a Name
- p. 29
- Home to Hong Kong
- p. 31
- Canticle on a Drop of Water
- pp. 31-32
- Hong Kong Riots II
- pp. 34-35
- Remembering 4th June, 1989
- pp. 38-39
- Like Pilgrims
- pp. 40-41
- The Blind Samurai
- p. 46
- In the Warm Glow
- p. 47
- Polite Conversation
- p. 48
- Apple Tree
- p. 49
- A Bit of Luck
- p. 50
- Colours of Corot
- p. 54
- Things Pentecostal
- pp. 55-56
- Bronze Horse
- p. 57
- Black Hole
- p. 59
- After Yeats
- p. 62
- Discipline
- p. 66
- A Burning Inadequacy
- p. 68
- The Long Frown
- p. 71
- A Neighbour’s Tale
- p. 76
- Once upon a Time
- p. 78
- The Awful Belief
- p. 79
- There Are No Monkeys Here
- pp. 80-81
- Time’s Pummelling
- p. 82
- The Unknown Source
- p. 82
- It’s Been Snowing
- p. 83
- For Every Mask
- p. 84
- Unschooled
- p. 84
- Soliloquy of a Madman
- pp. 85-86
- New Ends, Old Beginnings 1997
- Did You Know
- p. 92
- On Seeing Promite on the Shelves
- pp. 93-95
- Conversation
- p. 96
- January on the Gold Coast
- pp. 96-97
- Odd Couple
- p. 98
- The Australian O
- p. 101
- Coomera Lines
- p. 103
- Beginnings and Ends
- p. 104
- Tree of Life
- p. 107
- End of Era
- p. 108
- Spirit of Place
- p. 110
- Extension I
- p. 112
- Extension II
- p. 112
- A Good Year
- p. 113
- Chek Lap Kok
- p. 115
- Discomfort
- p. 118
- My Crown Jewels
- p. 118
- Dr Hero Joh
- p. 120
- New Poems
- Reflection
- p. 123
- I Sing of a Man
- p. 124
- Forty Years to Go
- p. 128
- Skeltonics
- p. 129
- Kindred Growth
- p. 131
- How on Earth . . .
- p. 132
- A Veteran Talking
- p. 134
- La Reine Australienne
- p. 135
- Darkness at 4 p.m.
- p. 136
- Three Poems on a Painter’s Works
- pp. 136-137
- Cock-a-doodle-doo
- p. 139
- About Turn
- p. 140
- Learning to Walk
- p. 145
- A Poem Is an Object
- p. 146
- A Poem Is Like
- p. 147
- Curtain Call
- p. 148
- Found Items
- pp. 149-151
- The Other Day
- p. 152
- Appendices
- pp. 163-174
Additional Information
ISBN
9789888052400
Related ISBN(s)
9789622090545
MARC Record
OCLC
647840259
Pages
188
Launched on MUSE
2012-02-08
Language
English
Open Access
No
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