The Girl from Ermita : & Selected Poems 1961-1998 _memoir A second-generation Eastern European Jewish

A second-generation Eastern European Jewish immigrant

like survivors staring down a world both utterly familiar and strange

" "Who loves ya

beauty and body

The Girl from Ermita : & Selected Poems 1961-1998 _memoir A second-generation Eastern European JewishDescription This collection by the award winning writer Goh Poh Seng is the first volume of his poetry published in North America. It spans more than thirty five years of his work and traverses cultures as well as continents. Goh's settings range from the wharfs at Singapore's harbour to a backwater bar in Papeete, Tahiti, from a park in Halifax to the streets of Vancouver. His characters are unforgettable: Fely, a young woman from Ermita who sells