Poems.

Includes bibliographical references.

CONTENTS Initiation, Fly-Fishing Friction, The Scent of the Real, Homecoming , Shades of Light in Holland, Village , What to Write About in Cold Storage, circa 2000 AD , What it Means to be Landless , Absences , Poem for an Engineer , Merlign , The Meaning of Wealth in the New Economy , Other Things , Patience , Salt , Aubade , The Burning Room , Incendium Amoris , Candles , Rain , To Go to S'pore , Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Snowscape , Loaded , Upgrading , Made of Gold , When the Barbarians Arrive , Biographical Note

This is a selected works from Alvin Pang's previous five collections. Wry and shrewd, the poems promote intelligence and sensitivity. They mock, celebrate and unsettle, are generous and beautiful, full of paradoxes, logic and illogicalica, and are at once recognizably national and international in reach.