21st century Asian American literature
A01=Nida Sophasarun
Author_Nida Sophasarun
Category=DC
Category=FXR
children of immigrants
dreamscapes
East Asia
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eq_biography-true-stories
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eq_poetry
Europe
first generation
home
intimate voice
lush settings
memory
metaphysical experience
peripatetic lifestyle
popular culture
refuge
uncanny
Product details
- ISBN 9780807183908
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 03 Apr 2025
- Publisher: Louisiana State University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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How close can a person come to home when their family has deserted it? Guided by this question, the poems in Nida Sophasarun's Novice traverse natural, animal, and dream worlds, seeking intimacy in a snake coming in from the rain, a mother's body imagined as a house, and the moon serving as both the missing piece and the linchpin in a night sky. Organized by tropical seasons and unfolding in Asia and the American South, Novice proposes that home is monumental and ruined, remembered and forgotten, local and diffuse, peopled and haunted.
Nida Sophasarun is from Atlanta, Georgia, and holds degrees from Wellesley College and the Johns Hopkins Writing Seminars. She has lived and worked in Bulgaria, China, Hong Kong, Japan, Myanmar, and Taiwan. Her poems appear in New England Review, Prairie Schooner, 32 Poems, wildness, and elsewhere.
