Hello Mongolia FROM THE PUBLISHER
Lilla Lyon was born in China and now lives in Manhattan and New Hampshire and has published poems in several distinguished magazines. HELLO MONGOLIA is her first book. "Lilla Lyon writes in the William Carlos Williams tradition of doctor and poet the body seen as landscape and element, mineral and state of nature, as mortal and mythical. She calls up divorce, loss, resentment, regret, love gone, love gone wrong, available love and then not, seeing a past love on the street suddenly, of loving the European eloquence and charm of the wrong man. Travels though a lifetime of residencies, of eccentric friends, of working in the STD clinic, of love in foreign cities. A doctor in a world of doctors who longs to interrupt their shoptalk gesticulating: 'Look at the Tiepolo sky over Brooklyn!' This is a brave kind of autobiography, a vulnerable kind of selfdisclosure, a song of living" Maureen Owen.
FROM THE CRITICS
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Filled with Boston and urban impressions and vivid imagery is this blend of free verse and essay, which provides notable discourses on many urban themes: "The record-player's squeak/creak of the icebox door/sparrows in the alley/Delft tiles rim the fireplace/dark house that Boston smell/camphor chests, salt fog, drizzle." Enjoy a wealth of such intimate images.
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