City of rain
By: Alvin Pang.
Publisher: Ethos Books
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Singapore
Language: eng
Number of pages: 98
First sentence: http://www.ethosbooks.com.sg/store/mli_viewItem.asp?idProduct=71
Description: “One of Singapore’s most visible poets, Pang grows with each book. In his poems we hear a voice unhurried, confident, and capable of carrying diverse humors, and read a rhetoric shaded to ironies, surprising us with glimpses of contemporary experience that affirm yet mock, celebrate and unsettle. His poetry adds a rich and complex presence to the critical mass of urban literature now fully emergent from Singapore. His poems, at once recognizably national and international in reach, offer a fresh edgy energy to this tradition.”

- Professor Shirley Geok-lin Lim Winner of the Commonwealth Poetry Prize, 1992 and author of Joss and Gold
Notes: Poems by Alvin Pang