Synopsis
One long poem threaded with personal, evocative poetry constantly moving. A Zen journey. A journey of love. The Absence of Zen. Becoming Jewish. The Kaddish. Blessings. A very readable work of what was known before and what is known now. From "The world is a hard place":
We look at our empty hands
and feel shadows and shade,
sky drying where water has bee,
and are left with wind, know them
only by their absence. Water. Wind.
-- Melissa Bell review in VISIONS-International 2001
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From the Publisher
Tham's new book _Counting_ is a poetry memoir, the equivalent of a personal epic at the beginning of the Twenty-First Century. Its reach is large, like Whitman's _America_. Filled with both Chinese and Jewish spirits, it overflows with humor, ideas, and stories. -- Shirley Lim Geok-lin.
Review
"(Counting)made me... ponder ideas to a point that I could hear nothing around me... An idea alone produces active thought, several produce meditation. -- Potomac Review, Spring 2001
After The Midrash Class
Are The Multiple Religions All Impressions
At My Father's Funeral
At Thirteen, I Despised The Unequal
At Thirteen, I Wanted
At Twenty-four I Thought My Future Was Fixed
Bumper Stickers Are Windbags Huffing At Strangers
Chinese Parents Count On Sons
Departing This Body, This World
Does A Blind Man Know The Wind
Einstein Said, God Does Not Play Dice
A February Day, Cold Wind Blowing
The First Time I Nursed My Daughter, I Knew
The First Time I Saw
A Friend's Daughter Dies
God In His Wisdom Gave Us Disposable Bodies
A Gratitude For America
A Gratitude For Children
A Gratitude For Joe
A Gratitude For Poems
A Gratitude For The Body
A Gratitude For The Creator
A Gratitude For The Present
Home Is A Place
How Long Do Zen Masters
How My Daughter Shoshana Cried
I Cannot Marry A Non-jew, Joe Said
I Did Not Feel Jewish Those First Years
I Grew Up Believing Silence
I Have Seen How A Potter Uses All
I Look At My Mother And See My Future
I Often Feel The Need To Hide Behind Silences
In High School
In Tel Aviv, Rebbitzin Siegel
In The Vet's Waiting Room
It Is Better To Light A Candle Than To Curse
It's Not A Perfect World, But
The Kabbalah Says The Light We Strive
Kindergarten Age Shoshana Said
Leaving Malaysia
Let Us Bless, Not Curse, Eve
Light And Life
London In Spring Was Freezing Cold
London-leicester Square, Piccadilly, Mayfair
The Loss Of Friendship
The Mind Goes Where Words Can
A Month Before The Wedding
My Mother Insisted On Chinese
My Mother Loved The Bamboo
My Mother Would Not Let Me Love Her Cat
On Our Wedding Day, The South China Sea
On The Boat Leaving Greece
On The Quay At Rhodes
One Summer, Joe Took Me Sailing
Our Budget Honeymoon Across Europe
Our Wedding Day
The Poem In The Mind Of The Poet
A Poem Is Never Finished
Rabbi Zuber
The Rabbis In The Sanhedrin Said
Red Is The Color Of Action
Shoshana, You Still Run Tests To Prove Love
The Silence Of Cats
Sometimes I Think The Metaphysical
Standing In The Dark, Seeing Orion's Belt
The Taste Of Chocolate, Like Faith
An Unexamined Life Is A Lost River
We Begin With Rain
We Believe The Past
We Come Into The World With A Cry
We Danced The Bamboo Dance
We Fail Our Children In Many Ways, In Strange
We Flew To London And I Learned I Had Never
We Have Devalued Love
We Judge Gods
We See Eroded Flesh
When I Am Happy With You, I Forget Zen
When Moses Came Down The Mountain
When My Husband Joe Is In Beijing
When Our Dearest Loves Go
White Is The Color Of Regret, Not Black
The World Is A Hard Place
The World We Make
Younger Sister, Death
Zen Teachers Say
-- Table of Poems from Poem FinderŪ
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