Lane With No Name: Memoirs and Poems of a Malaysian-Chinese Girlhood 9781685858131

Hilary Tham's memoirs reveal the many images, cultures, myths, and memories out of which her poetry has emerged.

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English Pages 224 Year 2023

Table of contents :
Contents
Photographs
Poems
Acknowledgments
Prologue
1 Before the We6
2 The Soy Sauce Compound
3 Lane with No Name
4 Family Labels
5 The Odd-Job Man
6 Egg Noodles
7 Nursery Rhymes & Proverbs Cantonese
8 India Next Door
9 Chickens
10 Leila's Wedding
11 Hot Water
12 Grandfather Au
13 Grandmother Tries to Give My Sisters Away
14 Jadegreen Plumblossom
15 The Nuns
16 Of Monks & Feet
17 The Corner Coffee Shop
18 The Hole in the Wall
19 The Bad Widow
20 Chinese Medicine
21 Earth Dragon, Metal Monkey
22 The Joyful Vanguards
23 The House on Palace Road
24 Chinese New Year
25 The Needs of the Dead
26 Final Days
27 The Lore of the Dead
28 Bare Feet & Broken Glass
29 The Writing Life
30 A Retrospective Interview
About the Author

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Latte With No Name

Other Books by Hilary Tham Men & Other Strange Myths: Poems & Art Tigerbone Wine: Poems Paper Boats: Poems of Hilary Tham

Lane With No Name Memoirs & Poems of a Malaysian-Chinese GirCfiood

Hilary

Tham

A THREE CONTINENTS LYNNE RIENNER

BOOK

PUBLISHERS'

BOULDER & L O N D O N

A Three Continents Book

Cover photograph of author by Rebecca SuYing Goldberg

©1996

Published in the United States of America in 1997 by Lynne Rienner Publishers, Inc. 1800 30th Street, Boulder, Colorado 80301 and in the United Kingdom by Lynne Rienner Publishers, Inc. 3 Henrietta Street, Covent Garden, London WC2E 8LU © 1997 by Lynne Rienner Publishers, Inc. All rights reserved Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Tham, Hilary, 1946Lane with no name : memoirs & poems of a Malaysian-Chinese girlhood / Hilary Tham. ISBN 0-89410-830-1.—ISBN 0-89410-831-X (pbk.) 1. Tham, Hilary, 1946 Childhood and youth. 2. Women poets, American—20th century—Biography. 3. Chinese—Malaysia—Social life and customs. 4. Asian American women—Biography. 5. Chinese— Malaysia—Poetry. I. Title. PS3570.H31837Z465 1997 811'.54—dc20 [B]

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Printed and bound in the United States of America The paper used in this publication meets the requirements