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Ode to Maxine Hong Kingston Printable Version PRINTABLE VERSION
by Iman Ng, United States Nov 3, 2006
Culture   Poetry

  

Throughout the ages

there have been many sages,

all were famous for their contributions

which deserve our utmost adulation's.

Their ideas that prevail among us

have been outlandishly audacious,

from mutually-cognitive existentialism

to the fundamentals of altruism.



But none have rivaled the magic

as well as the timelessly nostalgic

works of Maxine Hong Kingston,

who presents us her world of wanton

insights and conspicuous acumen.

Behold, for a conflagration of heresy

is taking place with unprecedented calamity.

The ever effervescent realm of literature

is fomented by Kingston's pedantic stature.

Her works are obdurate to denotations

yet recalcitrant in their predilections.

Their consonance and cordial postures

cavort in our hearts and minds as caricatures,

yet austerely creeping into us in a contrite

gesture bewildering us with their highest pulchritude.





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Iman Ng


I was born in Hong Kong on June 13th, 1989. Having lived in this Asian metropolis for 13 years and witnessed its transfer of sovereignty from Britain to the PRC, I developed my critical thinking skills about governance and international relations from these life-changing events.

My educational experience is undoubtedly one of the more interesting aspects of my life. I was brought up in a Cantonese-speaking environment and began my formal English instruction in 1996. After 1997, however, my school ceased using English as the medium of instruction and instituted Mandarin as the former's replacement in situ. I did not learn English formally (though I did study English privately for 4 years) until 2001 when I started my 7th Grade education at a Catholic-Jesuit secondary school.

In April 2002 my family decided to immigrate to the United States, after my father had almost lost his job. It was the only choice my family had, given how woeful the economy had been at that time. With great reluctance we left Hong Kong in July 2002, and settled in Rockville, Maryland, USA, where I have been living ever since.

One of my greatest passions is International Politics. I would like to learn more about the human condition and the state of the world today; we are intrinsically born into this Westphalian state system and there's no way to escape it, given how rampant globalization is and how constantly it is affecting our lives on a daily basis.
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nice
Odimegwu Onwumere | Dec 17th, 2006
When people go to the beyond, they seem to the eyes of many not to have lived. Nice poem indeed.

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