Novice Poems
Novice Poems by Nida Sophasarun, published by LSU Press on April 3, 2025, is a collection of 78 pages that explores the complexities of home and belonging. The poems delve into themes of intimacy and memory, guided by the poignant question of how close one can feel to home when familial ties have been severed. Through vivid imagery, the work traverses natural, animal, and dream worlds, presenting a unique perspective on the concept of home.
Readers will find that Novice Poems is organized by tropical seasons and unfolds across settings in Asia and the American South. The collection examines the duality of home as both monumental and ruined, remembered and forgotten. Sophasarun’s poetry invites contemplation on the connections between personal experiences and broader cultural themes, offering insights into the haunting nature of memory and the search for intimacy in a fragmented world.
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How close can a person come to home when their family has deserted it? Guided by this question, the poems in Nida Sophasarun’s Novice 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, Novice proposes that home is monumental and ruined, remembered and forgotten, local and diffuse, peopled and haunted.
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