@article{Cheng, University of Newcastle, Australia_2014, title={Walking between Land and Water: Pedestrian Poetics in the Poetry of Shirley Geok-lin Lim}, volume={8}, url={https://journals.iium.edu.my/asiatic/index.php/ajell/article/view/454}, DOI={10.31436/asiatic.v8i1.454}, abstractNote={<p><span style="color: black;">"Walking between Land and Water" weaves an exploration of the tropes of walking and liminality in the poetry of Shirley Geok-lin Lim into an essay-portrait of the poet at her home in Santa Barbara. It tracks the poet as she takes her daily walk on the beach, and sees how this mundane act furnishes a mobile poetic that articulates the contradictions and complexities of her diasporic history and condition. Focussing on her most recent collection of poems, </span><em><span><span>Walking Backwards</span></span></em><span>, the essay also picks out the major shifts in her work, especially the change to a more transnational key. </span></p>}, number={1}, journal={Asiatic: IIUM Journal of English Language and Literature}, author={Cheng, University of Newcastle, Australia, Boey Kim}, year={2014}, month={Jun.}, pages={72–84} }