Cycling with the Dragon David Alexander to push back and to

to push back and to complicate

Unlike most first books

each poem in this book expresses

seek the borders between the feral

Cycling with the Dragon David Alexander to push back and toDescription Cycling with the Dragon is a personal investigation of family,love, culture, self, and the helpless feeling of "smallness." Elaine Woo's poems take the form of the words that they speak: she forms an "o" for the buoy that is a child's safety raft (found in the solitude of a notebook and Harriet the Spy), and weaves a poem about fearing snakes and dreams into a descending slither. Woo's poems weave meaning with form, writing in a pastiche