Cirrus@Austlit

'Who Comes Calling? is Miriam Wei Wei Lo’s second collection, described by Lo as “the work of thirty years” spanning “a prolonged child-rearing stretch when my poetry practice was the five minutes I had to spare between folding the laundry and falling asleep.” In the poem ‘Ars Poetica’, Lo reminds us that “Without the woman at the kitchen sink, / nothing is possible”, and exhorts us, “(For goodness sake, pick up a teatowel, start drying!)” Lo captures the twin pull of these competing roles – caring and artistic practice – in the lives of women, and the dispiriting voice of its economic rationalism, in the eponymous poem ‘Who Comes Calling?’' 

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