{"product_id":"no-rhododendron-poems-samyak-shertok-paperback","title":"No Rhododendron: Poems -- Samyak Shertok, Paperback","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eFinalist, 2026 PEN Open Book Award\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\n\u003cb\u003eFinalist for the 2026 Nossrat Yassini Poetry Prize\u003c\/b\u003e\n\n\u003cb\u003eFeatured in \u003ci\u003ePoetry Daily\u003c\/i\u003e's Best Poems of 2025\u003c\/b\u003e\n\n\u003cb\u003eWinner, 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 schoolchildren'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.\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Samyak Shertok\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/strong\u003e University of Pittsburgh Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublished:\u003c\/strong\u003e 10\/7\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 120\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/strong\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWeight:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.5 lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSize:\u003c\/strong\u003e 8.6\" H x 6.8\" L x 0.4\" W\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 9780822967484\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Flowerburst","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50576299983152,"sku":"9780822967484","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2712\/8368\/files\/9780822967484.jpg?v=1777874021","url":"https:\/\/flowerburst.co\/products\/no-rhododendron-poems-samyak-shertok-paperback","provider":"Flowerburst","version":"1.0","type":"link"}