Ebook {Epub PDF} A Nail the Evening Hangs on by Monica Sok

Monica Sok is a Cambodian American poet and the daughter of refugees. She is the author of A Nail the Evening Hangs On (Copper Canyon Press, ). Her work /5. A Nail the Evening Hangs On Monica Sok. Copper Canyon, $17 trade paper (63p) ISBN Buy this book. Through recurring dreams that demand “You must know. C ambodian-American poet Monica Sok recalls transgeneration trauma in her debut collection, A Nail the Evening Hangs On. Born in Pennsylvania to parents who have sought refuge in the United States, Sok retraces the contours of a difficult and important conversation on identity. She succeeds in using her Americanness to question her sense of belonging in the Cambodian narrative, while inviting the Estimated Reading Time: 5 mins.

In her debut collection, Monica Sok uses poetry to reshape a family's memory about the Khmer Rouge regime-memory that is both A Nail the Evening Hangs on - by Monica Sok - Pinterest - Read reviews and buy A Nail the Evening Hangs on - by Monica Sok (Paperback) at Target. A Nail the Evening Hangs on. by. Monica Sok. · Rating details · ratings · 29 reviews. 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. Monica Sok is a Cambodian American poet and the daughter of refugees. She is the author of A Nail the Evening Hangs On (Copper Canyon Press, ). Her work has been recognized with a "Discovery" Prize from 92Y.

C ambodian-American poet Monica Sok recalls transgeneration trauma in her debut collection, A Nail the Evening Hangs On. Born in Pennsylvania to parents who have sought refuge in the United States, Sok retraces the contours of a difficult and important conversation on identity. She succeeds in using her Americanness to question her sense of belonging in the Cambodian narrative, while inviting the reader in two countries’ complex political history. “A Nail the Evening Hangs On is a reclamation.” ― Book Riot “Sok refocuses the lens of history onto the human, reminding us that, after all, the human is what history is about.”. 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.