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From: Pheng Heong TAN <phtan90@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 2 Jun 2021 13:19:56 +0800
Subject: [PATCH] Add another disliked book

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@@ -11,8 +11,6 @@ the name of Lord Christ Jesus. Amen.
 <p><b>At a glance
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-<li>Jee Leong Koh. "Equal to the earth".
-</li>
 
 <li><a href="#wong">Cyril Wong and Md Mukul Hossine. "Me migrant".
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@@ -23,6 +21,9 @@ the name of Lord Christ Jesus. Amen.
 <li><a href="#black">Stephen Black. "I ate Tiong Bahru".
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+<li><a href="#koh">Jee Leong Koh. "Equal to the Earth".
+</a>
+</li>
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@@ -95,5 +96,47 @@ Does Mr. Black come across as astute, through the pages of this book? I leave it
 <p>- 14th February 2021.
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+<div id="koh">
+<p><b>Jee Leong Koh. "Equal to the Earth".
+</b>
+</p>
+<p>
+Just a little too opinionated - and/or sarcastic - for my liking. I provide a couple of examples.
+</p>
+
+
+<p>
+"Some things should leave us: a sigh like your father," Jee Leong writes on Page 29. (Jee Leong addresses the poem to Jee Leong's father). In other words, Jee Leong's grandfather is like a sigh and he - our grandfather - should leave us. Ouch.
+</p>
+
+
+<p>
+"What a hoot to find out adults are like old cartoons. There slinks Mrs. Divorce. Here comes smiling Mr. Knifeinyourback." (Page 27). Ironically enough, Jee Leong himself comes across as Mr. Angry Young Man.
+</p>
+
+
+<p>
+Why do I read poetry? I read poetry to have a little more light with which to walk this meandering path in these dark woods. But Jee Leong's words seem to say: "Look at how dark these woods are."
+</p>
+
+
+<p>
+Not my cup of tea. 
+</p>
+
+
+<p>
+(I had more joy while reading the collection of poems titled "Poems on The Underground", edited by Gerard Benson.)
+</p>
+
+
+<p>
+(By the way, Jee Leong's photo, which appears on the back cover of my copy of this book, seems a little too pixellated (for my liking), and thus lends a slightly shoddy quality to this book).
+</p>
+<p>
+(Also, by the way, I think Jee Leong's words - or a few of them, at least - might work better as prose, instead of verse.)
+</p>
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