Gruel
| Gruel | |
|---|---|
| Author | Bunkong Tuon |
| Book type | Poetry |
| First published | 2015 |
| Publisher | NYQ Books |
| ISBN | 978-1-63045-006-9 |
| Subjects | Literature & Storytelling; Migration & Diaspora; History & Remembrance |
| Creator pages | Bunkong Tuon |
Gruel is a poetry collection by Bunkong Tuon, first published in 2015. (NYQ Books)
Description
- Gruel* is a collection of autobiographical free-verse poems tracing Bunkong Tuon’s childhood flight from Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge, life in Thai refugee camps, resettlement in the United States, and development as a writer and professor. Its themes include memory, genocide, family love, displacement, cultural identity, survival, trauma, and the search for home between Cambodian and American worlds. (NYQ Books)
Publication and editions
Written by Bunkong Tuon and published in 2015 as his first full-length poetry collection. Tuon describes the work as an autobiography in free verse, developed from an earlier autobiographical manuscript over approximately a decade. (NYQ Books)
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