Calyx, 2006 Paper: 978-0-934971-90-4 | eISBN: 978-0-934971-30-0 Library of Congress Classification PS3619.C4466S76 2006 Dewey Decimal Classification 811.6
ABOUT THIS BOOK | TOC
ABOUT THIS BOOK Poetry. Asian Studies. This moving, rich cycle of linked poems journeys from Cambodia's ancient mythic times to the killing fields and to the UN presence during Cambodia's first free elections. It bears witness to the plight of the Cambodian people and to all who have endured holocausts. The reader viscerally experiences the sweet-sour tastes of both jungle fruits and blackened, dead potato patches; the sights and sounds of the bombed Cambodian countryside and its fecund cities--as well as the humanity of others and ourselves.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Contents
UNTAC Map of Cambodia
Introduction
Storytelling in Cambodia
Storytelling in Cambodia
You Know the Killing Fields
The Locket
Hanuman, Leap for Me
Desire
The Anger Room
Sita Has Her Say
Their Father
The Sea of Churning Milk
To the Members of the Archeological Society of London
Delirium
The Indochine Caper
The Hotel Cambodiana
What I know
Picturing Pol Pot
The Place Where Death Lives
Off Screen
With a Small Typewriter
Phnom Penh as Still Life
Eulogy
Picturing Pol Pot
The Interrogation
Pol Pot's Wife Talks to Whoever Will Listen
Not a Persona Poem
Electric Can Opener
The Librarian
On the Road with St. Paul
Elegy
Absentee Ballot
Khmer Advice on Protection from Mines
The Reaper
The Evacuation
A Cartographer's View of the World
Prosthesis Maker
Summer of the Secret Ballot
The Bat Collection
Poem to Thorn's Wife
On the Sisophon Express
Absentee Ballot
Accident on Achar Mean
The White Whirlybird with the Black Letters Makes a Landing
Counseling in Phnom Penh
Their Room
Chinese New Year
Motorola: In Memoriam
The Vow
Sweet-Talking Guy
Unsent Letter to Suharso
I Look in My Passport at the Triangle Stamped 27 Feb 1993
Poetry. Asian Studies. This moving, rich cycle of linked poems journeys from Cambodia's ancient mythic times to the killing fields and to the UN presence during Cambodia's first free elections. It bears witness to the plight of the Cambodian people and to all who have endured holocausts. The reader viscerally experiences the sweet-sour tastes of both jungle fruits and blackened, dead potato patches; the sights and sounds of the bombed Cambodian countryside and its fecund cities--as well as the humanity of others and ourselves.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Contents
UNTAC Map of Cambodia
Introduction
Storytelling in Cambodia
Storytelling in Cambodia
You Know the Killing Fields
The Locket
Hanuman, Leap for Me
Desire
The Anger Room
Sita Has Her Say
Their Father
The Sea of Churning Milk
To the Members of the Archeological Society of London
Delirium
The Indochine Caper
The Hotel Cambodiana
What I know
Picturing Pol Pot
The Place Where Death Lives
Off Screen
With a Small Typewriter
Phnom Penh as Still Life
Eulogy
Picturing Pol Pot
The Interrogation
Pol Pot's Wife Talks to Whoever Will Listen
Not a Persona Poem
Electric Can Opener
The Librarian
On the Road with St. Paul
Elegy
Absentee Ballot
Khmer Advice on Protection from Mines
The Reaper
The Evacuation
A Cartographer's View of the World
Prosthesis Maker
Summer of the Secret Ballot
The Bat Collection
Poem to Thorn's Wife
On the Sisophon Express
Absentee Ballot
Accident on Achar Mean
The White Whirlybird with the Black Letters Makes a Landing
Counseling in Phnom Penh
Their Room
Chinese New Year
Motorola: In Memoriam
The Vow
Sweet-Talking Guy
Unsent Letter to Suharso
I Look in My Passport at the Triangle Stamped 27 Feb 1993