| A Nail the Evening Hangs on Contributor(s): Sok, Monica (Author) |
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ISBN: 1556595603 ISBN-13: 9781556595608 Publisher: Copper Canyon Press OUR PRICE: $14.40 Product Type: Paperback Published: February 2020 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | American - Asian American - Poetry | Women Authors - Poetry | Subjects & Themes - Death, Grief, Loss |
| Dewey: 811.6 |
| LCCN: 2019019607 |
| Physical Information: 0.3" H x 5.8" W x 8.9" (0.30 lbs) 88 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Asian - Ethnic Orientation - Asian - Sex & Gender - Feminine - Topical - Death/Dying |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In her debut collection, Monica Sok uses poetry to reshape a family's memory about the Khmer Rouge regime--memory that is both real and imagined--according to a child of refugees. Driven by myth-making and fables, the poems examine the inheritance of the genocide and the profound struggles of searing grief and PTSD. Though the landscape of Cambodia is always present, it is the liminal space, the in-betweenness of diaspora, in which younger generations must reconcile their history and create new rituals. A Nail the Evening Hangs On seeks to reclaim the Cambodian narrative with tenderness and an imagination that moves towards wholeness and possibility. |