{"product_id":"and-so-i-was-blessed-9781630450526","title":"And So I Was Blessed","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAnd So I Was Blessed\u003c\/em\u003e weaves together three narrative strands: a tourist visiting Viet Nam, a son sojourning to his father's village in the Mekong Delta, and a professor leading his students on a term abroad, all for the first time. Running throughout this poetry collection is the refrain of the central character--the tourist, son, and professor--missing the daughter he left behind. This is a book about history and memory, tourism and education, arrival and departure, loss and alienation, longing and misrecognition, and above all, a father's love for his daughter.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eTuon, Bunkong:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Bunkong Tuon is a writer, critic, and associate professor of English at Union College, in Schenectady, NY. His criticism on Southeast Asian American literature has been published in \u003cem\u003eComparative Literature Studies, MELUS, Mosaic, Children's Literature Quarterly\u003c\/em\u003e, among others. His poetry has appeared in \u003cem\u003ePaterson Literary Review, Chiron Review, Consequence, Poetry Quarterly, The Mekong Review, Numéro Cinq\u003c\/em\u003e, and others. He is a contributor to \u003cem\u003eCultural Weekly\u003c\/em\u003e. GRUEL, his first poetry collection, was published in 2015 (NYQ Books) and AND SO I WAS BLESSED is his latest book (NYQ Books, 2017).","brand":"NYQ Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50873923076370,"sku":"9781630450526","price":11.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_8b74342b-073b-429e-b832-67fae219c7b2.jpg?v=1737973666","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/and-so-i-was-blessed-9781630450526","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}