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Loading... The Ninjas (edition 2012)by Jane Yeh
Delving into new worlds populated by robots, witches, talking pandas, and giant stags, this collection offers funny, haunting, and heartbreaking poems. Highlighting the poet’s dazzling lyrical instincts balanced by her stinging wit, it moves between high art, pop culture, science fiction, and detective fiction to produce a series of unforgettable surprises. The characters herein speak from the page, from the lonely android seeking love in the wrong places to Sherlock Holmes’s hunting for a Yeti in Tibet. By searching out the heart of every real or fantastical situation, this compilation explores what it means to be human. 4 alternates | English | Primary description for language | Description provided by Bowker | score: 13 These poems open windows into new worlds populated by robots and witches, talking pandas and giant stags. 'The Ninjas, ' offers funny, haunting, heartbreaking poems, the poet's dazzling lyrical instincts balanced by her stinging wit. English | score: 3 Funny, heartbreaking, haunting: Jane Yeh's poems open windows onto utterly strange - and eerily familiar - worlds. Lonely ghosts hover around children on their way to school; lilies whisper among themselves, their heads 'filled with pollen and boredom'. Three solemn children in a Van Dyck portrait gaze out into their futures. Moving between high art and pop culture, Yeh creates richly textured poems, their lyrical beauty cut with a dark wit. How do we face death, how survive loss? What does it take to carry on? 'O tempura, O monkeys'. 2 alternates | English | score: 3
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