Introducing an unmistakable new voice in British poetry, the first collection by Sarah Howe.
There is a Chinese proverb that says: 'It is more profitable to raise geese than daughters.' But geese, like daughters, know the obligation to return home. In her exquisite first collection, Sarah Howe explores a dual heritage, journeying back to Hong Kong in search of her roots. With extraordinary range and power, the poems build into a meditation on hybridity, intermarriage and love -- what meaning we find in the world, in art, and in each other. Crossing the bounds of time, race and...