Poetry collection by Sokunthary Svay, Khmer writer and musician from the Bronx, New York.
Bunkong Tuon, author of Gruel and associate professor of English, Union College.
With No Others, Svay emerges as a powerful new voice in Cambodian-American poetry.
The poet is both fierce and tender, street-smart and thoughtful, maternal and filial, political and haunted.
Transnational and pan-ethnic in scope, the book begins in a refugee camp in Thailand, settles in the Bronx and, driven by memory and desire, returns to the Cambodian cities of Phnom Penh, Battambang, and Takeo.
Sokunthary Svay\'s Apsara in New York is truly like no other poetry collection I\'ve read.
She and her family were refugees from Cambodia who survived the genocidal Khmer Rouge regime.
Poetry collection by Sokunthary Svay, Khmer writer and musician from the Bronx, New York
