School of Distance Education
English Literature in the 21
st
century
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Hong Kong, where she lived until she was just shy of
eight years old. The poem goes with the flow of the river
while accommodating the physicality of the journey.
Loop of Jade
crosses boundaries of time,
place and
space. It interrogates what it means to belong to a race, a
country, a family.
‘Yangtze’, might be read as an evocation. . A
moon glimmers uncertainly on water’s surfaces,
a river
flows, a diving bird vanishes into it, fishermen’s nets
catch on something submerged,
a bridge remains only
“half-built”, a travelling boat merely “points” to its
destination.
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