Poems of Inspector Chen: The poems in the present collection are compiled chronologically, to be more specific, in the order of their appearanc First Generation of Americans It took eight years of

It took eight years of learning

he ran to dine at other men's tables

An ex-medic

But when a fifteen-year-old orphan claims she's his daughter

Poems of Inspector Chen: The poems in the present collection are compiled chronologically, to be more specific, in the order of their appearanc First Generation of Americans It took eight years ofThe poems in the present collection are compiled chronologically. Some of them have appeared either entirely or partially in the Chen novels, but with his writing in a hurry under the stress of the job, he usually takes time later to revise them, so the poems here may show difference, sometimes substantial, from the original versions. And some of them, either written in his pre inspector days, or conceived in fragments only in his mind, now appear for