In the absent everyday by Tsering Wangmo Dhompa [in AsianWeek]
30 Jun, by in Adult Readers, Poetry, Repost, Tibetan American
A varied collection of elliptical poems from Tsering, possibly the only Tibetan American writer publishing regularly. Her words, her images, her memories seem to weave together to reinvent and reconstruct...
"It is not the accuracy of the story that concerns us," the author writes in the title's opening poem. "But who gets to tell it." Dhompa captures her fractured self...