{"product_id":"apsara-in-new-york-9780999223239","title":"Apsara in New York","description":"\u003cp\u003ePoetry collection by Sokunthary Svay, Khmer writer and musician from the Bronx, New York. She and her family were refugees from Cambodia who survived the genocidal Khmer Rouge regime. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Sokunthary Svay's \u003cem\u003eApsara in New York\u003c\/em\u003e is truly like no other poetry collection I've read. 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. The poet is both fierce and tender, street-smart\u003cstrong\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003eand thoughtful, maternal and filial, political and haunted. With \u003cem\u003eNo Others, \u003c\/em\u003e Svay emerges as a powerful new voice in Cambodian-American poetry.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBunkong Tuon, author of \u003cem\u003eGruel\u003c\/em\u003e and associate professor of English, Union College\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSvay, Sokunthary:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Sokunthary Svay is a Pushcart-nominated Khmer writer and musician from the Bronx, New York. She and her family were refugees from Cambodia who survived the genocidal Khmer Rouge regime. She is the poetry editor for \u003cem\u003eNewtown Literary\u003c\/em\u003e. A founding member of the Cambodian American Literary Arts Association (CALAA), her work has been published internationally in Japan, Malaysia, Indonesia, London and Australia. Svay was a subject in New York Magazine's Living in a Sanctuary City portfolio and featured in the New York Immigration Coalition's \u003cem\u003eThis is Our NY\u003c\/em\u003e, broadcast in Times Square. Additional writing credits include \u003cem\u003eHomelands: Women's Journeys Across Race, Place and Time, LONTAR: Journal for Southeast Asian Speculative Fiction, FLESH, Prairie Schooner, Women's Studies Quarterly, Blue Lyra Review\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eMekong Review\u003c\/em\u003e. She is a past Willow Arts Alliance Residency Fellow and a recipient of the First Friday Residency at the Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning. Svay recently received an American Opera Projects' Composers \u0026amp; the Voice Fellowship for 2017-18, where she will gain experience as a writer for voice and the operatic stage alongside her composer partner Liliya Ugay.","brand":"Willow Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50556673294610,"sku":"9780999223239","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_ecd00e6c-fb41-402b-9820-383ed8a1ab69.jpg?v=1731759381","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/apsara-in-new-york-9780999223239","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}