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TEOW LIM GOH

TEOW LIM GOH is a poet and essayist immersed in her ongoing project to recover the histories of Chinese immigrants in the American West. Based in Denver, Colorado, Goh is the author of multiple poetry collections and a Colorado Book Awards nominated essay collection. 

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BEHIND THE BOOK

An interview with Teow Lim Goh about the making of Bitter Creek, and Teow's hopes and dreams for the book. 

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BITTER CREEK
An Epic Poem

In September of 1885, the Chinese coal miners who were brought into Wyoming as strikebreakers were ambushed and driven out of the town of Rock Springs at gunpoint by white coal miners. Bitter Creek revisits this dark episode—known today as the Rock Springs Massacre—revealing the stories beneath this violent, decade-long culmination of labor struggles and racial hostilities in the Union Pacific Coal Mines.

 

Through the eyes of the struggling railroad workers, their families, and the corporation working them to the bone, Teow Lim Goh creates an ode to buried history that blends epic tradition with modern composition and astonishing empathy to ask the question, “What turns ordinary people into monsters?”

 

“Bitter Creek weaves a polyphony of voices at odds with one another driven by conflicting motivations such as profit, labor, survival, and disputes over space. Set in a harsh and unforgiving time and place, these poems explore a past so brutal that it’s tempting to want to forget. However, Goh urges us to remember and honor these voices by keeping their stories alive.”
—LISA BICKMORE, Utah poet laureate

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