A Bad Girl's Book of Animals

Author: Wong May

Publisher: Ethos Books (2023)

Wong May’s poems are concerned with the ultimate loneliness, the inarticulateness and the inability to communicate fully that are the marks of human life. “My poems,” says Wong May, “are about wordlessness rather than words. I feel that we must recognize our ultimate wordlessness.”

First published in the US in 1969, and reissued in Singapore 54 years later, A Bad Girl’s Book of Animalscontinues to astound, intrigue, and endure.