The Irreversible Sun

"Lim's poems capture the spirit of California with beauty and insight."-Jon Parrish Peede, editor, Virginia Quarterly Review "Shirley Lim's poems sing with the defiance of Blake and Yeats, clapping hands `for every tatter in our mortal dress.' The song is fierce, the vision incisively clear-eyed-supremely mature, an unsentimental perception of humanity and nature. The Irreversible Sun's song soars even in direst loss."-Anca Vlasopolos, author of Cartographies of Scale (and Wing) "Shirley Lim's poetry simultaneously puzzles and clarifies. These poems are rich in sense of place and startling juxtapositions: gingkos, coastal oaks, and magpies alongside glittery garbage. They move and surprise like the cracks and slides of the earth."-Diane Thiel, poet, author, and professor, University of New Mexico