Poetry. Asian American Studies. "Dhompa's potent suite of poems elucidates the humanness and adversities of the Tibetan diaspora. You enter the immigrant girl-child's bifurcated world, coming and going, language to language, culture to culture, from childhood to sexuality. A lovely explication of 'dharma—things as they are, and how precious they are, no special pleading—Anne Waldman.
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Apparently the first book of poems in English by (or about) a Tibetan-American, Tsering Wangmo Dhompa's Rules of the House is set in Tibet and in the South Asian exile communities where Dhompa spent her youth. Her interconnected, memory-drenched poems (many in short prose paragraphs) move easily between particular Tibetan losses and a gnomic lyric mode that welcomes all comers: monastery kitchens sit beside funerals and love affairs, epigrams promise "wording eyes," and one page concludes "Give eyes to your feet. Don't follow."
Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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Tsering Wangmo Dhompa was raised in India and Nepal. Tsering received her MA from University of Massachussetts and her MFA in Creative Writing from San Francisco State University. Her first book of poems, RULES OF THE HOUSE, published by Apogee Press in 2002 was a finalist for the Asian American Literary Awards in 2003. Other publications include IN THE ABSENT EVERYDAY (Apogee Press, 2005) and two chapbooks, In Writing the Names (A.bacus, Potes & Poets Press) and Recurring Gestures (Tangram Press). Tsering works for a San Francisco based non-profit foundation that provides humanitarian aid to people of the Himalayas.
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A great view of the Tibetan exile life,
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Tsering Wangmo Dhompa does a fantastic job here to provide vignettes of the Tibetan exile life -- sounds, feelings, images and even silences -- through her unique narrative poems. Dislocation, homeland loyalty, patriotism, cultural clash, Tibetan religion, are all found in her moving yet humorous poems. The book is to be savored slowly so that readers allow enough time for the soul to digest her "truths". Almost all poems contain so much deep, subtle meaning that after reading a single poem, one feels as if he or she has read a good book.
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