Pollard Memorial Library (Lowell)

Crazy melon and Chinese apple, the poems of Frances Chung, compiled and with an afterword by Walter K. Lew

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poetry

Crazy melon and Chinese apple

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compiled and with an afterword by Walter K. Lew

Wesleyan poetry

the poems of Frances Chung

Yo vivo en el barrio chino -- The echoes of the night trucks -- References to your home as a ghetto. Ancient -- No one uses word such as -- welcome to Chinatown ladies and gentlemen -- One black boy on a class trip -- Neon lights that warm no one. How long -- The movie theater filled with sticky -- Philodendron plants. Monk's food and -- They dress alike and cut their black hair into -- They are seen in different -- The hare krishna people come -- Walking along the Bowery, can't -- bread -- bread #2 -- surrealists on east houston -- There are more Chinese bums -- Aside from the trees in Columbus Park -- it is the same walk -- oh lucky me -- On New Year's Eve we throw the -- Chinese New Year. Yellow chrysanthemums -- the winter wind sits in the living room -- a flower lifts on Mott Street -- The summer nights we spent on the cool stoops. We wore -- We stole a snail from the outdoor baskets in front of the -- Goofy Lala was the wicked woman who lived on Elizabeth -- We spent summer afternoons catching flies that hovered -- My Italian girlfriends dressed up on Sundays in dresses and -- On Saturday, it is 14th Street for shopping. Clothes at a -- Every Sunday, we go to 'Jew Street, ' Orchard Town, to -- Mango did not know what she wanted. Not from the -- Please don't tell me you're sorry. Don't bother. That -- in a corner of the subway door discovered -- mosquito -- they must have me learn my lessons of violence -- It would have been nice if people saw her as she saw -- Piropos de la chinita -- the magician growing bean sprouts -- they want me to settle down -- There is a group of Chinese-American men who think of -- this Chinese warrior -- that Zen time in the snow -- dream collection -- Discovery of the secret power to -- The cockroach dream nightmare. Banging -- behind the chatter -- We use newspaper for a -- Where is the cockroach who left -- Don't leave any rice in your -- When the water in the pot is -- If it is true that you are what you -- I am fruit crazy. I love six -- Fruit Mutations -- I have very little -- do you remember when it seemed the whole world -- Lunchtime at the factory is a family affair. Mother and -- I discover the other women in my family. My -- Sitting across from me on the bus a Chinese -- Riding the subway is an adventure -- he was growing old -- I call her the tea lady (to myself) because I -- He wears a uniform of red and black -- Beekman Downtown -- He came down the hall with blackness in his pupils -- that stiff figure there -- viet nam -- Taiwan -- Hong Kong -- I went to sleep last night -- The young man dressed in white is a barber at -- En busca del barrio chino de Lima ... -- And if I said 'ming' to you -- of three minds -- scenes gathered from a Chinese-English dictionary -- Glossary -- For Li Po -- eating oranges -- in search of Chinese madness -- the Mah-Jong players -- chopsticks -- Chinatown Sign -- Cantonese Opera at Sun Sing Theater -- three peasant daughters -- Chinatown heartbreak -- do you remember when it seemed -- wedding -- they want me to settle down -- Chinese New Year -- Chinese poem -- lovers -- Double Ten (10/10 day) -- For my grandfather's friend -- the middle daughter -- winter festival -- the magician growing bean sprouts -- For a lion dancer -- cough remedy -- Chinese dentist -- half a man -- celebration -- Pacific Avenue -- Chinatown, San Francisco -- donde se venden pavos -- Mount Tamalpais -- the great American yellow poem -- fruit mutations -- Mexico -- recuerdos de la chinita en Guatemala -- Guatemala -- adios, vaya con dios -- cradle song for Mieko -- tulips -- we are sailing off -- ode to a patchwork quilt -- night light -- purple poem -- love's canopy -- found Chinese poem, 1944 -- love song -- Sa Gow -- China -- scenes gathered from a Chinese-English dictionary -- one Chinese apple -- chaul -- poem for an Indian scholar -- kaleidoscope -- Chinese Women -- marriage signs -- American actress (1907-1961)