Metal Ox Moon

About the Book

Metal Ox Moon, the author's second poetry collection, refers to her Chinese zodiac sign—she was born in the Year of the Ox, and her element is metal. The poems, though, are far from metallic in character. She dubs this book a reluctant collection because of the uncertainty in her desire to have it published. Excerpt of a review of Sorrows of the Chameleon: “Interesting inclusions are several haiku, senryu, tanka and a haibun, which combines haiku with travelbound prose. . . . Wagemakers succeeds in transposing her expatriate Filipina verses into exhalations of the eye, as a sigh of an insight. . . . Her mild sorrows are . . . universal, however acutely personal, and thus charming with many skins and colours. I look forward to more of her delicate poetry.”

About the Author

Born of unknown parentage sometime toward the end of September 1961 in Manila, Ella Wagemakers emigrated to the Netherlands in 1988 and became a Dutch citizen in 1993. She obtained a master's degree in education in Tilburg in 2003, worked full-time at the Dutch Police Academy for nine years, and is currently teaching business communications and project management at the Hogeschool Rotterdam (Rotterdam University) in the IBMS programme of the Rotterdam Business School. Her first book (written in Dutch) is an eight-hundred-plus-page genealogy of the Wagemakers family. Her first poetry collection, Sorrows of the Chameleon, was published by Xlibris in 2007. Metal Ox Moon is her second collection. She lives with her husband, Adrian, in West Brabant, is still active with genealogy, and is also into photography, travel, reading, and philately.