Tiffany Tsao reviews My Funeral Gondola by Fiona Sze-Lorrain
My Funeral Gondola
by Fiona Sze-Lorrain
Mãnoa Books / El Léon Literary Arts, 2013
ISBN: 978-0983391982
Reviewed by TIFFANY TSAO
Where does life reside? Where does the spirit live? Where is the substance of the self? In Fiona Sze-Lorrain’s second poetry collection, My Funeral Gondola, ponderous wonderings become lighter than air, flying and perching like inquisitive birds, melancholy, merry, gentle, and sly. Inviting us to step through a prefatory poem that signals our passage into a world ‘No more black and white’, the poet guides us through the realms of liminality, and with her we experience the afterlives of herself and others, the reverberations of past dreams and memories, and the scattering of consciousness through time and space.
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