Where Are the Snows: Poems Binding:Paperback conceals his true identity to

conceals his true identity to stay alive

leaving their desecrated bodies all over the city

whose presence exposes cracks in Singapore's beguiling façade

The city's immigrants are sworn to secrecy

this mixture of guide and memoir offers thirty-three practical techniques based on the emotions elicited from these experiences

Where Are the Snows: Poems Binding:Paperback conceals his true identity toWhere Are the Snows takes its title from the famous refrain of Franois Villon's 15th Century poem "Ballad of the Ladies of Times Past." Like that poem, the book functions, among other things, as an ubi sunt, Latin for "Where are they?" as in "Where are the ones who came before us?" the beautiful, the strong, the virtuous, all of them? In keeping with that long tradition, these poems offer a way to think about life's transience its beauty, its