{"product_id":"no-rhododendron-poems-9780822967484","title":"No Rhododendron: Poems","description":"\u003cb\u003eWinner of the 2024 Donald Hall Prize for Poetry\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePart elegy, part poetry of witness, and part poetry of exile, \u003ci\u003e No Rhododendron\u003c\/i\u003e is a lament to the poet-speaker's father and fatherland and a grief-wrought love letter to his mother and mother tongue. The collection is haunted by an existential question about Shertok's oral mother tongue, Tamang: How do you write about a language that has no script? Exploring the erasure, ambiguity, multiplicity, violence, and unknowability signified by \"X,\" the poems dwell on the lip of a new ghost language, which ultimately fails itself. The polyphonal witnessing of the decade-long Maoist conflict in his native Nepal from school children's perspective reveals how a war can fracture the psyche of an entire generation. The final thread of the book, a \"reverse-elegy\" for his mother, meditates on the impending loss of a loved one as a potential site of mourning, impermanence, gratitude, memory-making, and mythopoeticism.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Pittsburgh Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/07\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780822967484\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 120\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.50lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.60h x 6.80w x 0.40d","brand":"Samyak Shertok","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51495056441525,"sku":"9780822967484","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_1f637f25-c143-4474-80c3-e59def91e938.jpg?v=1754973831","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/no-rhododendron-poems-9780822967484","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}