Gruel, by Bunkong Tuon
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In his first full-length collection, GRUEL, Bunkong Tuon documents the lives of Cambodian refugees and explores the poetic landscape of a Cambodian America. Written tenderly, with honesty, intelligence, and occasional humor, GRUEL is populated by survivors such as a boy who loses his mother to the Khmer Rouge regime, a grandmother who risks her life to steal a few grains of rice for her grandson, an uncle who is beaten by Thai military police for night fishing outside a refugee camp, an aunt who leaves the East Coast to buy a donut shop in California, a father who re-experiences the traumas of the Cambodian Genocide, a young man who discovers Charles Bukowski in a Long Beach public library, a professor who teaches about the horrors of war to college students at a private college in Upstate New York, to name a few. It's a book about memories, ghosts and haunting, personal loss and historical traumas, losing and finding home, discovery and self-invention; above all, it's a book about love, sacrifice, and hope.
Gruel, by Bunkong Tuon- Amazon Sales Rank: #1796350 in Books
- Published on: 2015-06-25
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 9.02" h x .31" w x 5.98" l, .44 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 130 pages
From the Back Cover "There are many ghosts here," writes Bunkong Tuon in the poem that opens Gruel, his profoundly moving first book of poetry. Here are ghosts of those who perished during the genocidal terror of the Khmer Rouge, ghosts that include the poet's own mother. And here too is the story of those who survived, refugees who, like the poet himself, had to flee to a strange land. Arriving in the United States as a boy, raised by his extended family, Tuon came of age struggling to understand his hyphenated identity, and in the process fell in love with poetry, and poetry, one can see, saved his life. Thus there is an epic sweep to this work, yet in its crystalline, intimate lines, we glimpse a place within where ghosts still live and a soul might be forged, that place where, as Emily Dickinson said, "the Meanings are." --Fred Marchant, Author of The Looking House Gruel is a book that goes beyond courage to a willingness to let fire mesh with skin in order to make the journey inside what we call the American. Carried across the back of his grandmother through the mountains as they fled the Khmer Rouge, the poet puts the reader on the back of universal human trauma to travel toward the deepest commonality of the human, a willingness to love despite the dangers of attachment. --Afaa Michael Weaver, Author of The Plum Flower Trilogy Gruel is hauntingly beautiful with a deep yearning for love and normalcy like those who have been blessed to have been spared by war and tragic loss. Bunkong's gift as a poet is reflected in his remarkable ability to visually and vividly tell his stories that make you want to keep reading his poetry collection. Gruel is heart-warming and inspiring. --Chanrithy Him, Author of When Broken Glass Floats: Growing up Under the Khmer Rouge Just as the most straightforward protestations of emotion--I love you, I'm afraid, I'm angry, I feel helpless--are often the most moving, the honesty and directness of Gruel are what move us both to tears and to joy here. A marvelous debut. --Sydney Lea, Vermont Poet Laureate
About the Author Born a few years before the Khmer Rouge takeover of Cambodia in 1975, Bunkong Tuon remembers very little of the atrocities in Cambodia. In 1979, he escaped with his grandmother and extended family to live in refugee camps in Thailand before settling in Malden, Massachusetts in the 1980s. His poetry and nonfiction have appeared in The New York Quarterly, The Paterson Literary Review, Chiron Review, The Más Tequila Review, Nerve Cowboy, Numéro Cinq, Misfit Magazine, and The Massachusetts Review, among others. He is an associate professor of English at Union College, in Schenectady, NY.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful. this book is written in a style and language easily understood by both the casual reader and the student By Steven Hendrix Bunkong Tuon is one of those poets who believe in the democratization and accessibility of literature, that one should not need a PhD to understand poetry. Therefore, this book is written in a style and language easily understood by both the casual reader and the student. But neither is Tuon’s language and imagery empty like so much of the poetry we see today. He writes with a strong and compassionate narrative voice that has something to say and something worth listening to.Along with the unique story which unfolds throughout Gruel, there is something fundamentally human that connects the reader with each poem in this book: themes of loss, love, growth, and the constant rediscovery of who we are as individuals and our place in society.For those who are afraid to approach a book of poetry, I challenge you to read this one. For those who have made poetry an integral part of their lives, this book will add to that enrichment. Tuon’s story is an important one, and it’s told in one of the best books of poetry I’ve read in a long time.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. Beautiful, Graceful, Sensitive, Brilliant By Cassandra G., Long Beach, CA GRUEL is a beautifully written, autobiographic and sensitive account of Mr. Tuon's journey from Thai refugee camps to his adopted homeland of the U.S. The reader is able to get a feeling and glimpse of what it must have been like for him and his family of their refugee and immigrant experiences, beginning when he was a small child, and all the way to his current adult life, with many interesting and astute observations in-between. The language used is evocative of a stranger's experience in a new, strange land: the home grown American reader empathizes with the experience of the "other". The poet's love of literature emanates in many of the poems, as well as testifies to the life-changing, and indeed life-saving, gifts that the discovery of literature has bestowed upon him: his transformation from being a "punk" kid to an erudite scholar.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful. Beautiful and moving By Clint Margrave Beautiful and moving. Bunkong Tuon's debut collection, Gruel, is honest, spirited, meaningful poetry with a straightforward economic style that cuts like a weed zapper across the overgrown and pretentious landscape of contemporary American poetry. Buy this book. You won't be sorry.
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