Abstract
The poems in this collection represent a collage of memories, dreams, and experiences. This body of work is an attempt by one writer to create a metaphorical bridge linking fragments of childhood to the present. The challenge for the poet is one of, as Trinh Minh-Ha states, “speaking nearby” rather than “speaking about.” “A speaking that reflects on itself and can come very close to a subject without, however, seizing or claiming it.”1 To create a space in which writing can “speak nearby,” the poet’s language dwells both inside and outside, disassembles myths of perception and representation, recognizes external desires that seek to interpret and capture, feels through recursive movements, to accept rather than to justify, to understand how her life continues to evolve in the now, and most of all, to enjoy those moments of silence, those moments of bliss.