Lays and Relays (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

Tung Chia

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0483875813 ISBN 13: 9780483875814

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

A vivid collection of verse and prose that moves between travel, exile, and the perils and pleasures of cross‑cultural life.

From portraits of Far Cathay to riffs on home and nostalgia, this book blends humor, observation, and quiet elegy.

What you’ll experience

• Lyrical meditations on duty, identity, and the pull between distant lands and a homeland.
• Sketches of life in ports, plantations, and treaty towns, told through playful and thoughtful verse.
• Satirical and affectionate pieces that frame cultural exchange, ambition, and the costs of empire.
• A mix of formal poetry, epistolary moments, and light narrative poems that carry a wry, humane voice.

Ideal for readers of vintage travel verse, colonial-era poetry, and anthology lovers who enjoy wit wrapped in moral reflection.

Edition details

• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0483875813
• ISBN 13: 9780483875814
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 162