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In her debut collection, Monica Sok uses poetry to reshape a family's memory about the Khmer Rouge regimememory that is both real and imaginedaccording 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.

A Nail the Evening Hangs On

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      Publisher: Copper Canyon Press,U.S.
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 09/04/2020
      ISBN13: 9781556595608, 978-1556595608
      ISBN10: 1556595603

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      Book Synopsis
      In her debut collection, Monica Sok uses poetry to reshape a family's memory about the Khmer Rouge regimememory that is both real and imaginedaccording 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.

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