Colours of Heroines

by Lydia Kwa

Lydia Kwa's voice is drenched in memory. Speaking at several junctures, both Singapore-born and Vancouver-habituated, her poetry carries the pain and historic wealth of her passage. It murmurs stories, laconic, profound, stories that tell whole shapes of lives in a few lines. Family anecdotes, fragments of intimacy, life stories of friends - these poems open windows onto the compulsions that form inner landscapes. Equally at home in a finely cadenced...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0889611998
• ISBN13: 9780889611993
• Release Date: January 1994
• Publisher: Women's Press Literary
• Length: 113 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.5" x 8.5"