'Bread of the Lost' | poetry | ISBN 978 1 877010 248 | 102 pgs | Nov 2012 | $20.00 (within Australia)
This is a poetry of desire that shocks but leads to a personal
freedom, from the innocence of childhood to the pluralism
of womanhood. Van Rijswijk does not flinch from loss and
pain in her poems, a kind of contemporary Adam and Eve.
Rather, the erotic in her distinctive voice is intermingled
with the bread of communion, bread of love, bread of
life. Her poems are distinctly Australian with potent Asian
touches, in which she also draws skilfully upon the classics
and popular culture of the English-language world.
Javant Biarujia