Return to Book Page Praise for Intimate Distances Sample Poems Table of Contents Review in the Canadian Book Review Annual Intimate Distances By Fiona Tinwei Lam AVAILABLE 0-88971-188-7 Nightwood Editions 5.25 x 7.5 · 96 pages Paperback · $15.95 October 2002 Shortlisted for the 2003 City of Vancouver Book Prize. "Fiona Tinwei Lam deals with the question of societal roles and how to play them . . . You go with her on a search for appropriate rituals to mark the sudden beauty and pain of family life. The poems talk about togetherness as they pound each other apart . . . You realize that this is where Lam does her best writing: in the domestic space, the constriction of marriage, the sensuous beauty of parenting and its attendant frustrations. You see the emotional strength required just to get through the poetic day." -Jacqueline Turner The Georgia Straight, January 2-9, 2003