Quote of the day
When the moon is in the seventh house,
And Jupiter aligns with Mars,
Then peace will guide the planets,
And love will steer the stars;
This is the dawning of the age of Aquarius.
Shirley Geok-lin Lim
Born: December 27, 1944 (age 79)
Bio: Shirley Geok-lin Lim was born in Malacca Malaysia. She is an American writer of poetry, fiction, and criticism. Her first collection of poems, Crossing The Peninsula, published in 1980, won her the Commonwealth Poetry Prize, a first both for an Asian and for a woman.
Known for:
- Among the white moon faces (1996)
- Joss and Gold (2002)
- One World of Literature (1993)
- Monsoon History (1994)
- What the fortune teller didn't say (1998)