{"product_id":"apsara-in-new-york","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","brand":"Willow Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42551467933771,"sku":"9780999223239","price":14.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0635\/5645\/2427\/files\/imageloader_a94ca1c6-cf36-4d3b-9dbc-a3d46f040516.jpg?v=1780508370","url":"https:\/\/xiabooks.org\/products\/apsara-in-new-york","provider":"XIA Books \u0026 Café","version":"1.0","type":"link"}