Cycling with the Dragon David Alexander of the children who died

of the children who died

Unlike most first books

It is the river that flows through DeCroo's life

personal obsession

–Paul Vermeersch

Cycling with the Dragon David Alexander of the children who diedDescription 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