The Votive Pen: Writings on Edwin Thumboo Subclass Code_1FM So he tells himself to

So he tells himself to play it cool: Be charming

And the only people acting weird…are the ones watching TV

Laura won't give in without a fight

ISBN - 9780753439906

The Votive Pen: Writings on Edwin Thumboo Subclass Code_1FM So he tells himself toA rivetting look at the fiercely original, intellectually brilliant mind of Singapores unofficial Poet Laureate, Edwin Thumboo. Born of Tamil and Teochew parents, he embraced the Protestant faith late in his life. He has a self confessed fetish for Yeats and Pound and yet completed his doctoral thesis on post colonial African poetry. He taught himself the Ramayana and I Ching but found traces of the Odysseus in the shadows of the Merlion. He is