No Rhododendron by Samyak Shertok - 9780822967484

No RhododendronPoems\nAuthor(s): Samyak Shertok\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: University of Pittsburgh Press, United States\nImprint: University of Pittsburgh Press\nISBN-13: 9780822967484, 978-0822967484\nSynopsis\nLonglist, 2026 Julie Suk Award\nFinalist, 2026 PEN Open Book Award\nFinalist for the 2026 Nossrat Yassini Poetry Prize\nFeatured in Poetry Daily's Best Poems of 2025\nWinner, 2024 Donald Hall Prize for Poetry\n\nPart elegy, part poetry of witness, and part poetry of exile, No Rhododendron is a lament to the poet-speakers father and fatherland and a grief-wrought love letter to his mother and mother tongue. The collection is haunted by an existential question about Shertoks oral mother tongue, Tamang: How do you write about a language that has no script? Exploring the erasure, ambiguity, multiplicity, violence, and unknowability signified by X, the poems dwell on the lip of a new ghost language, which ultimately fails itself. The polyphonal witnessing of the decade-long M.