Fatima Lim-Wilson. Columbus: Ohio S...

Fatima Lim-Wilson. Columbus: Ohio State University Pres 1995

Fatima Lim-Wilson lives in my hearth town of Seattle, city of floating bridges. And further like so many people in Seattle, she is from elsewhere--in her case, the Philippines--and her poesy is about the many kinds of border crossings that are necessary to inhabit a bicultural identity. if it were not that to call Crossing the Snow Bridge a collection about cultural identity is to procure it exactly wrong: Lim-Wilson's greatest potency is her ability to persuade sympathetically and yet skeptically, between characters nations, and historical ...