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Familial relationships are never simple, are they? I think if you had a simple family life, you would have been very lucky. Love is so complicated. M… - Shirley Geok-lin Lim
" "Familial relationships are never simple, are they? I think if you had a simple family life, you would have been very lucky. Love is so complicated. My father loved us, but he beat us! How do you come to terms with this very loving man who also was an abusive man?
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About Shirley Geok-lin Lim
Shirley Geok-lin Lim (born 1944) is an American writer of poetry, fiction, and criticism. She was both the first woman and the first Asian person to be awarded the Commonwealth Poetry Prize for her first poetry collection, Crossing The Peninsula (1980). In 1997, she received the American Book Award for her memoir, Among the White Moon Faces.
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Shirley Lim Geok Lin
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Lin Yulin
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Shirley Lim
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Poetry is what has saved me through the years. I started writing when I was about nine. I discovered that I could go into a space where there is language-language that is mine, which is completely private and where I can do anything with it. I can curse at someone I cannot curse otherwise. I can create a space of beauty when all around me is poverty and deprivation. I can experience an uplifting of the spirit when all around me things are trying to pull me down. That act of writing the poem is the act that has centered me all my life.
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