"Shirley Lims 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 Geok-lin Lim is the author of more than ten books, including poetry, short stories, critical works, a memoir, and three novels. Currently a research professor in the English department at the University of California, Santa Barbara, she received her PhD from Brandeis University.