Western Journeys

Teow Lim Goh is the author of two previous books, Islanders and Faraway Places. Her essays, poetry, and criticism have appeared in The Georgia Review, Beloit Poetry Journal, Los Angeles Review of Books, PBS NewsHour, and The New Yorker.

I: Beyond the Myths Hollywood Pilgrims Coastlines Dreams of Golden Mountain Firecracker At the Ruins II: Ordinary Legacies Western Journeys Ascent The Ideology of Paradise A Memory of Hills At the Ponds III: Visions of Land The Road Home: On Christo and Jeanne- Claude's Over the River Flowers of Prison: Ai Weiwei on Alcatraz Split Footsteps on the Sea Letter to the Arctic IV: Apocalypses Borders and Citizens Refuge: Rocky Flats, Colorado The Ghosts of Bitter Creek Home Lands Fire Season V: Off the Page The Stories that Bind Us The Subjective Passions Lost and Found: On Kate Zambreno's Heroines On Tenacity The Dehumanizing Politics of Likability Notes Bibliography Acknowledgments

Western Journeys is compelling, powerful, and important. The erasure that Goh wants to combat can only be addressed one word at a time. That is the power and the pain of recovery-it is slow-but once the hidden gets pulled into the light it cannot be lost again. Each of these essays is an act of hauling the past into the present, of naming what many might prefer to ignore or deny."-Jennifer Sinor, author of Sky Songs: Meditations on Loving a Broken World and Ordinary Trauma "The writing in Western Journeys is gorgeous, alternatingly spare and lush, in explicating how Teow Lim Goh found her writerly voice as an immigrant enthralled by an American West built upon the legislated and violent erasure of non-whites."-Michelle Liu, University of Washington