--- product_id: 13932471 title: "Yearling" price: "P74" currency: BWP in_stock: false reviews_count: 5 url: https://botswana.desertcart.com/products/13932471-yearling store_origin: BW region: Botswana --- # Yearling **Price:** P74 **Availability:** ❌ Out of Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** Yearling - **How much does it cost?** P74 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Currently out of stock - **Where can I buy it?** [botswana.desertcart.com](https://botswana.desertcart.com/products/13932471-yearling) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description Yearling [Mei-en, Lo Kwa] on desertcart.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Yearling Review: buy this. - this is the best work of poetry i’ve read in 20 years. the meter / word sound work & imagery is so complex & on point. Review: Loosening the hounds - Yearling is an astounding collection of poems. Breathless in its intensity and ceaselessly inventive, Mei En transforms the English language into ecstatic music. The subject here is the self, one that is half animal and half human, half angel and half demon, half child and half adult---a "star of disaster," "a bullet wounding water," "a loaded machine gun", "a whale beneath the wave," a "hotel full of hounds." It is a self coming into its own as a powerful, sexual, and self aware being. The transformation is violent, at times a struggle, but utterly inevitable and self assured. Passion and desire seethe under the surface and the speaker can never be satisfied. The Pinnochia poems call on the familiar tale of a boy who undergoes a long journey in order to become an adult. In this collection it becomes a metaphor of adolescence. Pinnochia, the child, is wooden and indestructible as it floats on the sea and gets swallowed by fish. There is magic and immortality about that state which is lost when the child transitions to an adult. The essence of Pinnochia is the potential for fire, and flesh is the flame that consumes itself and eventually must die out. Reading Yearling is to become in touch with the flame. In our everyday existence of restraint and responsibility, it's easy to forget about the animal self that yearns to flare, the desires that propel us forward into an uncertain future. Yearling reignites that fire and calls us to a fuller, more passionate existence, an invitation to "scar both star-studded knees kneeling on a red blade of the electro-heavens, and yoke the necks of empty bottles to a little solar wind and let the message go." ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Best Sellers Rank | #10,343,842 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #6,631 in Parenting Teenagers (Books) #28,517 in Poetry by Women #44,449 in American Poetry (Books) | | Customer Reviews | 4.8 4.8 out of 5 stars (6) | | Dimensions | 5.4 x 0.3 x 8.3 inches | | ISBN-10 | 1938584104 | | ISBN-13 | 978-1938584107 | | Item Weight | 4.8 ounces | | Language | English | | Print length | 100 pages | | Publication date | April 14, 2015 | | Publisher | Alice James Books | ## Images ![Yearling - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71UNQXm55FL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ buy this. *by S***N on September 18, 2018* this is the best work of poetry i’ve read in 20 years. the meter / word sound work & imagery is so complex & on point. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Loosening the hounds *by P***A on December 7, 2015* Yearling is an astounding collection of poems. Breathless in its intensity and ceaselessly inventive, Mei En transforms the English language into ecstatic music. The subject here is the self, one that is half animal and half human, half angel and half demon, half child and half adult---a "star of disaster," "a bullet wounding water," "a loaded machine gun", "a whale beneath the wave," a "hotel full of hounds." It is a self coming into its own as a powerful, sexual, and self aware being. The transformation is violent, at times a struggle, but utterly inevitable and self assured. Passion and desire seethe under the surface and the speaker can never be satisfied. The Pinnochia poems call on the familiar tale of a boy who undergoes a long journey in order to become an adult. In this collection it becomes a metaphor of adolescence. Pinnochia, the child, is wooden and indestructible as it floats on the sea and gets swallowed by fish. There is magic and immortality about that state which is lost when the child transitions to an adult. The essence of Pinnochia is the potential for fire, and flesh is the flame that consumes itself and eventually must die out. Reading Yearling is to become in touch with the flame. In our everyday existence of restraint and responsibility, it's easy to forget about the animal self that yearns to flare, the desires that propel us forward into an uncertain future. Yearling reignites that fire and calls us to a fuller, more passionate existence, an invitation to "scar both star-studded knees kneeling on a red blade of the electro-heavens, and yoke the necks of empty bottles to a little solar wind and let the message go." ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ An Historic, Game-Changing Book. *by P***R on May 1, 2015* Yearling is a remarkably mature, assured and accomplished body of work for a first collection. The authenticity of an individual's emotional, lived experience rings throughout.The poems sing with integrity. Although sense is often illusive the reader is convinced of Lo Kwa Mei-en's compulsion to communicate. Sentence fragments are deployed masterfully amidst more conventional syntactical elements to comprise statements of great visual and sonic beauty. The poem 'Man O'War' establishes itself as an indispensable corner stone to future anthologies and alone is worth the price of admission, without eclipsing the attractions of a great many other, wonderful poems in this book. --- ## Why Shop on Desertcart? - 🛒 **Trusted by 1.3+ Million Shoppers** — Serving international shoppers since 2016 - 🌍 **Shop Globally** — Access 737+ million products across 21 categories - 💰 **No Hidden Fees** — All customs, duties, and taxes included in the price - 🔄 **15-Day Free Returns** — Hassle-free returns (30 days for PRO members) - 🔒 **Secure Payments** — Trusted payment options with buyer protection - ⭐ **TrustPilot Rated 4.5/5** — Based on 8,000+ happy customer reviews **Shop now:** [https://botswana.desertcart.com/products/13932471-yearling](https://botswana.desertcart.com/products/13932471-yearling) --- *Product available on Desertcart Botswana* *Store origin: BW* *Last updated: 2026-10-15*