Shirley Geok-lin Lim

Shirley Geok-lin Lim is the author of more than ten books, including poetry, short stories, critical works, a memoir, and three novels. Currently a research professor in the English department at the University of California, Santa Barbara, she received her PhD from Brandeis University.

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The Irreversible Sun

West End Press

"Lim's poems capture the spirit of California with beauty and insight."--Jon Parrish Peede, editor, Virginia Quarterly Review

  • Copyright year: 2015
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Walking Backwards

New Poems

West End Press

Orbiting the globe, this collection of poems narrates encounters in a transnational American’s circuit.

  • Copyright year: 2010
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What the Fortune Teller Didn't Say

West End Press

Written over the last decade, these poems include memories of the author's early childhood in Malaysia, immigration to America, and travel throughout the world, and affirmations of motherhood and maturity in the New World.

  • Copyright year: 1998
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