Download or read book Forbidden Entries written by John Yau and published by David R. Godine Publisher. This book was released on 1996 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fifty-four new poems by John Yau, who examines ways in which language has long been used, quite often subtly, to oppress and exclude." Yau conduct us across wastes of "cities... fluttering with lost ghouls" through dawn-inkling "Chrome Snooze Lots" to "shrapnel inlaid verandahs" and "second level nocturnal trellises" where, curtained in mirage, "inhabited shadows wait"... "This, we tell ourselves, is the place where we must start".