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Apsara in New York : poems / Sokunthary Svay.
LIBRA PS3619.V36 A78 2017
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Svay, Sokunthary, author.
- Standardized Title:
- Poems. Selections.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American poetry--21st century.
- American poetry.
- Genre:
- Poetry.
- Physical Description:
- 60 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Detroit, Michigan : Willow Books, a division of Aquarius Press, [2017]
- Contents:
- Aspara in New York
- Jungle crossing, 1980
- No others
- Her American life
- At least prostitutes bring home money
- Portrait of a cleaning lady
- Make room for tenderness
- The Khmer speaks through palms
- Music doesn't put food on the table
- Trespass
- Mother monologue #1
- Initiation
- This your mother say (or mother monologue #2)
- Mother's call
- Bronx childhood
- The fresh oriental
- No radio
- Hold your peace, I speak now
- Tutoring in session
- Postcard from the Bronx Zoo
- Evasion
- Diction
- Seeing red
- Progression
- Common ground
- Baptism
- Mekong song
- Monsoon monk
- Circumference
- Reincarnation
- Beneath the ground
- Something borrowed
- Molding
- Dear grandmother
- Pochentong farewell in Khmer
- Embody
- Postpartum depression on loop
- Morning song
- Ode to mother's sarong
- When motherhood is suffering
- Daughter-in-waiting
- First generation Cambodian American mother facebook typo
- Good luck, homey
- Good view for a no. 2
- Mother tongue
- Reading between the ribcage
- The estate
- This is your inheritance
- Pulse in 2
- Don't let your heritage be past tense
- About the poet.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Laura Jan Meyerson Poetry Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9780999223239
- 0999223232
- OCLC:
- 1020069195
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