A nail the evening hangs on / Monica Sok.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sok, Monica, 1990- author.

Standardized Title:

Poems. Selections

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Genocide--Cambodia--Poetry.

Genocide.

Grief--Poetry.

Grief.

History.

Cambodia.

Cambodia--History--20th century--Poetry.

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

61 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Port Townsend, Washington : Copper Canyon Press, [2020]

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.

"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.

Contents:

I

Ask the Locals p. 5

Americans Dancing in the Heart of Darkness p. 6

The Radio Host Goes into Hiding p. 8

Sestina p. 17

The Weaver p. 19

Recurring Dreams p. 20

Self-Portrait in Siem Reap p. 22

The Death of Pol Pot p. 23

The Radio Brings News p. 24

Windfall p. 25

Song of an Orphaned Soldier Clearing Land Mines p. 26

II

Tuol Sleng p. 29

III

In a Room of One Thousand Buddhas p. 41

Cruel Radiance p. 42

ABC for Refugees p. 44

Ode to the Loom p. 45

I Am Rachana p. 47

Cambodia p. 48

The Death of Henry Kissinger p. 49

Self-Portrait as War Museum Captions p. 50

The Woman Who Was Small, Not Because the World Expanded p. 51

Here Is Your Name p. 53.

ISBN:

9781556595608

1556595603

OCLC:

1099543178

Publisher Number:

99983768644