A nail the evening hangs on /

A nail the evening hangs on /

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Author / Creator:	Sok, Monica, 1990- author.
Uniform title:	Poems. Selections
Imprint:	Port Townsend, Washington : Copper Canyon Press, [2020]
Description:	61 pages ; 23 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Genocide -- Cambodia -- Poetry. Grief -- Poetry. Cambodia -- History -- 20th century -- Poetry. Poetry.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12007914

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ISBN:	9781556595608 1556595603
Summary:	"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."--Publisher's description. A Nail the Evening Hangs On reshapes a Cambodian family's memory about the Khmer Rouge regime--memory both real and imagined.

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Summary:	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.
Physical Description:	61 pages ; 23 cm
ISBN:	9781556595608 1556595603