Storytelling in Cambodia

by Willa Schneberg

Overview

Poetry. Asian Studies. This moving, rich cycle of linked poems journeys from Cambodia's ancient mythic times to the killing fields and to the UN presence during Cambodia's first free elections. It bears witness to the plight of the Cambodian people and to all who have endured holocausts. The reader viscerally experiences the sweet-sour tastes of both jungle fruits and blackened, dead potato patches; the sights and sounds of the bombed Cambodian countryside and its fecund cities--as well as the humanity of others and ourselves.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780934971300
Publisher:	Calyx
Publication date:	09/01/2021
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	128
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

Brooklyn-born Willa Schneberg's second poetry collection, Margins of the World, won the 2002 Oregon Book Award for Poetry and also received the honor of Garrison Keillor reading from it for the 2002/2003 Writer's Almanac. A sculptor and clinical social worker, Schneberg has been published in American Poetry Review, among others. From 1992-1993, she worked for the U.N. in Phnom Penh, Cambodia.

What People are Saying About This

Peg Boyers

Peg Boyers, Executive Editor, Salmagundi
...a journey that is as geographically exotic and far-flung as it is spiritually profound...brutally documentary and lyrically elegiac...

Sam Hamill

an extraordinary journey...rich rewarding poetry, a compassionate, visionary response to a very real world.

David P. Chandler

David P. Chandler, The Tragedy of Cambodian History and Brother Number One: A Political Biography of Pol Pot
...she catches often painful experiences in her hands like water from a tap and transforms them...into creations that shimmer...

David Ray

David Ray, The Death of Sardanapalus and Other Poems of the Iraq War
Schneberg is a poet who boldly faces evil and has the courage to express her reactions in art and testimony.

Carolyn Forché

...a searing account of one of the darkest moments in modern history.