Wode Shuofa (My Way of Speaking)

Berkeley, CA: Tooth of Time Books, 1988. First Edition. Quarto in b&w pictorial wraps; 77 pages : portrait ; 23 cm About near fine(-) with minor edge-wear. Paperback. ISBN: 9780940510159, 0940510154

Finely crafted first book of poems by this Chinese-American Hawaiian (hakka) woman and winner of a 1989 American Book Award. Paperback original. Limited to 750 copies.¶ "Carolyn Leilani Yu Zhen Lau (aka Carolyn Lau; born 1946 Honolulu, Hawaii) is an American poet. Lei-Lanilau is Hawaiian of Hakka ancestry. She graduated from San Francisco State University with an M.A. in English. She also studied Chinese philosophy. She is an educator who teaches poetry and movement to bilingual Chinese and Southeast Asian immigrant children. Her work appeared in The Bloomsbury Review, The American Poetry Review, Manoa, Yellow Silk, Zyzzyva, and Calyx. She lectured at the University of Hawaii at Manoa and at West O'ahu, Tianjin Foreign Languages Institute in Hexi District, Tianjin China, and California State University, East Bay. She divides her time between Oakland, California, and Honolulu." —Wikipedia. Lau also studied gestalt psychotherapy with Fritz Perls and poetry with Jack Gilbert.