Angeline Yap (b. 1959)

1. BIOGRAPHY

2. CRITICAL INTRODUCTION

3. SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

4. SELECTED POEMS

• Helplessness

• tea

• It Shouldn’t Be Allowed

• Merbak

• xin

• colours

• Forgetting, 1976

5. SELECTED VIDEOS

6. TRACK CHANGES: “COMMUNION”

SELECTED POEMS

Forgetting, 1976

for Su-lin (because she likes it)

Forgetting
Is what you do
To things you try to remember.

I have not forgotten you.
You, I never tried to remember;
Only folded you up,
Gently,
Not to hurt the image;
Carefully,
So not to get the crease
Across your face.

by Angeline Yap
from Collected Poems (1986)

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