Souvankham Thammavongsa

Residual follows Souvankham Thamavongsa's award-winning debut, Small Arguments (Pedlar, 2003). Thamavongsa's poems explore their subjects in startlingly meticulous ways: light, turtles, and ostriches are all described in finely chosen lines — originally composed on graph paper — that float across the page. Each object, each thing, described with a forensic precision. Hers is a poetry that approaches the world with the focus of an autopsy. There is both care and indifference here that few other poets have the ability to sense. The result is a quiet, seemingly unassuming, suite of haunted poems.

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	Souvankham Thammavongsa is the author of Small Arguments (Pedlar Press, 2003).

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This edition is limited to 100 numbered copies handsewn in paper wrappers, and 26 copies lettered A-Z for private distribution, all signed by the author.

Out of Print

Summer 2005
ISBN-10: 1-894744-21-7;
ISBN-13: 978-1-894744-21-8

Printed on Mohawk Concept Vellum with handmade Tibetan flyleaves, hand-stitched with archival waxed linen thread. The wrapper is handmade 100% cotton rag from New Delhi.

5.375" × 7.75"; 16pp.