Angeline Yap (b. 1959)

1. BIOGRAPHY

2. CRITICAL INTRODUCTION

3. SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

4. SELECTED POEMS

• Helplessness

• tea

5. SELECTED VIDEOS

6. TRACK CHANGES: “COMMUNION”

SELECTED POEMS

Helplessness

Happiness is eloquent
But the search is difficult
For words appropriate to grief
Or relevant to anger.

I search;
Though at best humane, inadequate.
At worst, redundant.

by Angeline Yap
from Collected Poems (1986)

SELECTED POEMS: "tea" >