Poetry Collection from Qing Yun Xuan 清韻軒吟稿

   The author, Sharyn Huang (née Lin), was born in China in the mid '60s. As a child, Huang loved classical Chinese poetry (metered poems comprised of four or eight verses, each containing five or seven characters, with a strict tonal pattern and rhyme scheme) and music. Even though she immigrated to the United States at the age of 13, her family continued subscribing to the World Journal, a major Chinese newspaper, which helped her to maintain her Chinese language fluency in her