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"After" is a book of letters in the form of poems that poignantly describes the author's life and experiences as a child before, during and after the Khmer Rouge. It traces the author's journey out of Cambodia to the United States and the experiences he had thereafter, through loss of and separation from family members, a kind of unity emerges as each poem addresses the author's yearning to make sense of one of the greatest tragedies of our world.
About the author
Chath pierSath, born in Battambang, Cambodia in 1970, survived the Khmer Rouge genocide in Cambodia and grew up in the United States. He is the author of three collections, After: Poems (Abingdon Square, 2009), This Body Mystery: Paintings and Poems (¿Abingdon Square, 2012), and On Earth Beneath Sky: Poems and Sketches (Loom Press, 2022), and a children's book, Sinat and the Instrument of the Heart (Soundprints, 2010). Also known internationally for his visual art, he has exhibited in Asia, Europe, and North America. He lives and works on a family farm in the town of Bolton in the Nashoba Valley of central Massachusetts.
