Learning to Love America
by Shirley Geok-Lin Lim
‘Learning to Love America’ by Shirley Geok-Lin Lim is a thoughtful poem about identity. It explores the way the speaker, likely the poet herself, learned to love the country.
Shirley Geok-lin Lim is a Malaysian writer born in 1944. She is known for her poetry, fiction, and more. Her first collection of poems won the Commonwealth Poetry Prize. She has also worked as a professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
‘Learning to Love America’ by Shirley Geok-Lin Lim is a thoughtful poem about identity. It explores the way the speaker, likely the poet herself, learned to love the country.