“Denise Low allows us to enter the world she describes in Thailand Journal: Poems by immersing us in sensual particulars as she details events as varied as the Chiang Mai Market at night with “celadon vases, silver flasks, and mother-of-pearl” or watching fighting cocks, water buffalo, or ibis-like birds on the highway to Chiang Rai. By weaving together history, music, dance and legend into her complex poems, Denise Low turns “air into living silk.” These moving and compassionate poems add richness to American culture by accessing lives of another people and creating a bridge all can cross. The music and wisdom of Low’s extraordinary poems linter first in the ear, but finally find their way to the heart.”
Vivian Shipley, ed. Connecticut Review; Conn. State Univ. Distinguished Professor, author of When There Is No Shore, winner of the 2002 Word Press Poetry Prize
Thailand Journal: Poems
