Cycling with the Dragon David Alexander It is the river that

It is the river that flows through DeCroo's life

each poem in this book expresses

adultery and death

to push back and to complicate

A college student looks to his girlfriend’s diary for pointers on how he should act

Cycling with the Dragon David Alexander It is the river thatDescription Cycling with the Dragon is a personal investigation of family,love, culture, self, and the helpless feeling of "smallness." Elaine Woo's poems take the form of the words that they speak: she forms an "o" for the buoy that is a child's safety raft (found in the solitude of a notebook and Harriet the Spy), and weaves a poem about fearing snakes and dreams into a descending slither. Woo's poems weave meaning with form, writing in a pastiche