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Title
No rhododendron / Samyak Shertok.
Author
Uniform Title
Poems. Selections
ISBN
9780822967484 paperback
0822967480 paperback
0822967480 paperback
Published
Pittsburgh, Pa. : Univeristy of Pittsburgh Press, [2025]
Copyright
©2025
Language
English
Description
108 pages ; 23 cm
Exhibited
2024-2025 Poets House Showcase.
System Control No.
(OCoLC)1481711102
Summary
"Part elegy, part poetry of witness, and part poetry of exile, No Rhododendron is a lament to the poet-speaker's father and fatherland and a grief-wrought love letter to his mother and mother tongue. The collection is haunted by an existential question about Shertok's oral mother tongue, Tamang: How do you write about a language that has no script? Exploring the erasure, ambiguity, multiplicity, violence, and unknowability signified by X,' the poems dwell on the lip of a new ghost language, which ultimately fails itself. The polyphonal witnessing of the decade-long Maoist conflict in his native Nepal from schoolchildren's perspective reveals how a war can fracture the psyche of an entire generation. The final thread of the book, a 'reverse-elegy' for his mother, meditates on the impending loss of a loved one as a potential site of mourning, impermanence, gratitude, memory-making, and mythopoeticism"-- Provided by Amazon
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (page 103).
Formatted Contents Note
Mother tongue: a haunting
A brief history of hunger
No rhododendron
In a time of reevolution
No man's land Ghazal
Himalayas driver's license
Ama
King volture
A blessing
A sky burial
Operation rhododendron: a Ghazabun
Song in a time of revolution
Love in a time of revolution
Feast in a time of revolution
Luciferin
Sky burial
A small talk
You who saved Yama by turning his underworld flesh into your feathers
Bride of the revolution
Harvest of the revolution
How to sky-bury your fatherland: a Ghazanellet
How to sky-bury your father tongue
Lachryphagus
Breaching
Heirloom
How to return to Kathmandu after five years in America
One hundred and fight doors
Nomad: a Ghazanet
Someday I'll love Samyak Shertok
Dear unborn moonbug,
Dear mouth of the horse-ghost,
Anniversary
The last Himalayan beekeeper.
A brief history of hunger
No rhododendron
In a time of reevolution
No man's land Ghazal
Himalayas driver's license
Ama
King volture
A blessing
A sky burial
Operation rhododendron: a Ghazabun
Song in a time of revolution
Love in a time of revolution
Feast in a time of revolution
Luciferin
Sky burial
A small talk
You who saved Yama by turning his underworld flesh into your feathers
Bride of the revolution
Harvest of the revolution
How to sky-bury your fatherland: a Ghazanellet
How to sky-bury your father tongue
Lachryphagus
Breaching
Heirloom
How to return to Kathmandu after five years in America
One hundred and fight doors
Nomad: a Ghazanet
Someday I'll love Samyak Shertok
Dear unborn moonbug,
Dear mouth of the horse-ghost,
Anniversary
The last Himalayan beekeeper.
Awards
Donald Hall Prize for poetry, 2024
Series
Pitt poetry series.
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