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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

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.