{"product_id":"novice-poems-9780807183908","title":"Novice: Poems","description":"How close can a person come to home when their family has deserted it? Guided by this question, the poems in Nida Sophasarun's \u003ci\u003eNovice\u003c\/i\u003e traverse natural, animal, and dream worlds, seeking intimacy in a snake coming in from the rain, a mother's body imagined as a house, and the moon serving as both the missing piece and the linchpin in a night sky. Organized by tropical seasons and unfolding in Asia and the American South, \u003ci\u003eNovice \u003c\/i\u003eproposes that home is monumental and ruined, remembered and forgotten, local and diffuse, peopled and haunted.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNida Sophasarun \u003c\/b\u003eis from Atlanta, Georgia, and holds degrees from Wellesley College and the Johns Hopkins Writing Seminars. She has lived and worked in Bulgaria, China, Hong Kong, Japan, Myanmar, and Taiwan. Her poems appear in \u003ci\u003eNew England Review, Prairie Schooner, \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e32 Poems, \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003ewildness, \u003c\/i\u003eand elsewhere.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Louisiana State University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51183075033362,"sku":"9780807183908","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_3ff27068-c84e-4772-a43a-3228eb311940.jpg?v=1744454088","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/novice-poems-9780807183908","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}