Novice

How close can a person come to home when their family has deserted it? Guided by this question the poems in Nida Sophasarun's <i>Novice</i> traverse natural animal and dream worlds seeking intimacy in a snake coming in from the rain a mother's body imagined as a house and the moon serving as both the missing piece and the linchpin in a night sky. Organized by tropical seasons and unfolding in Asia and the American South <i>Novice </i>proposes that home is monumental and ruined remembered and forgotten local and diffuse peopled and haunted.