Many of Choleng's early poems explore the surprise and the wonder of young love. Is her feeling for a boy merely a crush ? or is it the real thing? When she was twenty-two, her poems were slightly analytical, exploring the feelings of jealousy and the uncertainty of romantic love. But she dealt with jealousy lightly, with now and then a statement of cynicism about the emotion she knew as love. Below her poem Hero Worshipper she had appended a note (Absolutely idiotic). In not any of her 139 poems on love between girl and boy did she express the ecstasy of requited love nor the fulfillment of...