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Afterlives: An AGNI Portfolio of Asian Adoptee Diaspora Writing
Ceremony, by Jennifer Kwon Dobbs For years as a graduate student, I sensed a male presence listening while I read drafts aloud and tinkered late into the night, so I wasn’t surprised when a Korean shaman elder, her back bending and left eye closing as his spirit possessed her, said how much he enjoyed watching me write poems. 4번째할아버지, my four-times great-grandfather, had been a man of letters, owned many cows and good land.
Octopoda Is the Scientific Name of the Octopus
A crocodile can’t stick its tongue out. Froot Loops are all the same flavour. It’s impossible to hum while holding your nose. How many of these facts did you know? The world is a wondrous place where terrible things can exist simultaneously without it imploding. In another, I’m dead instead of my father. Did he turn to poetry to cope with his grief? Or Khmer is my mother tongue. Or I’m not a poet, but an actor fluent in Portuguese instead of Spanish. In a distant universe, I’m a cartoonist.
Let's talk about getting what you want
I visited a nice Airbnb with a good friend last week. It was able to fit 11 people and there was only two of us. "I need to get some clarity," he tells me. He didn't know it could fit 11 people until he checked the listing before picking me up. He's my only friend who could pull that off. So we get to the Airbnb and it took our breath away. I mean a beautiful triangle swimming pool in the backyard with a view of the desert and no other houses in sight.
Amnesiac
From Ghost Face by Greg Santos. Reprinted with permission of the publisher, DC Books. It all happened a long time ago. Do you remember? I think there was a nun, a war, the phone call that changed everyone’s lives. No, how could you remember? You weren’t even there. But now that I think about it, neither was I. That moment when you have something to say but forget what you’ve been saying mid-sentence, I have that right now. I’ve had that problem my entire life.
FIRST PERSON | Adopted as a baby, I knew little about my Khmer heritage. I'm now trying to fill in those gaps | CBC News
I did not always know how to navigate being a transracial adoptee, and it will likely always be a work in progress, writes Greg Santos. Greg was adopted by Spanish and Portuguese immigrants after his birth mother landed in Canada, fleeing genocide in Cambodia. (Submitted by Greg Santos) This First Person article is the experience of Greg Santos, a poet, editor and educator in Montreal. For more information about CBC's First Person stories, please see the FAQ.
Ghost Face
Ghost Face by Greg Santos, graduate '09, Creative Writing at The New School DC Books, 2020 From the publisher: In his third DC Books title, Ghost Face, Greg Santos explores what it means to have been a Cambodian infant adopted at birth by a Canadian family.
Ghost Face
Ghost Face Ghost Face Currently 0 out of 5 Stars. 1 2 3 4 5 Thank you for rating this book! You have already rated this book, you can only rate it once! Your rating has been changed, thanks for rating! Log in to rate this book. 'Greg is clearly a poet of great vision and clarity. His voice is extremely confident and strong, with each poem well-crafted and lean. .. If you enjoy the work of Sarah Howe or Ocean Vuong, I would recommend this book with no hesitation.
Ghost Face
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Blackbirds
FORMAT Description Poetry. In BLACKBIRDS Greg Santos delves into the raw, private mythologies of parenthood, adoption, ethnicity, and uncertain histories. These lyrical poems bring us from Lisbon's winding ways, to cramped Paris quarters and sacred spaces, to Cambodian street markets--all those rooms, wombs, and ruins that make up a complicated and poignant personal history. Building on the wit and charm of his previous full-length collections, here Santos brings us to a space both dark and dear.
Ghost Face
Prices and offers may vary in store Pre-order online Ships free on orders over $25 Not yet available in stores Dear Ghosts deals with the following themes:Parenthood, adoption, identity, migration, poetry as memoir, family mythologies, and mourning, The poetry is raw, intimate and deals with complicated and poignant family histories. 'Don't be lulled by the seeming plain—spokenness and ease of Santos' poetry.
A Xiákè in Jiānghú: Wǔxiá Fiction, Translations, and #RacismInCanLit
By Yilin Wang “I’m writing a novel in English that’s inspired by wǔxiá fiction.” As I finished speaking in Mandarin, forty middle school students stared back at me with stunned eyes. It was as if I had suddenly transformed into a xiákè, a wandering warrior, who had stepped out of the pages of a wǔxiá novel and into their classroom in Chóngqìng, China.
carte blanche's Pushcart Prize Nominations!
carte blanche is pleased to announce our nominations for the Pushcart Prize! Congratulations and best of luck to our six nominees.
Thinking About Moose
From Feathertale's Big Book of Exquisitely Egregious Poetry and Diverse Versification and So Forth and Such, edited by Corina Milic. Published by Feathertale in 2012. Greg Santos is the author of The Emperor's Sofa (2010) and Rabbit Punch! (2014), both from DC Books. He is the poetry editor for carte blanche. He lives in Montreal. A moose a day keeps the doctor away. Which came first, the chicken or the moose? Kill two birds with one moose. Don’t count your moose until they’ve hatched.
Rabbit Punch: Santos, Greg: 9781927599228: Books
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Cha: An Asian Literary Journal
by Greg Santos, art by Mia Funk I lost my talk when you asked me how I liked this country. How long it had been since I had moved to Canada, even though I was born here. I lost my talk when you had to point out that I was the only Asian student in class, even when I explained I was from here but adopted by parents from Spain and Portugal. I lost my talk when you tried to categorise me like an insect in a shadow box. I lost my talk when you pulled your eyes into slits and said, ching chong chow.
Cha: An Asian Literary Journal
Poetry / February 2010 (Issue 10) Siem Reap, Cambodia by Greg Santos Photograph by Tammy Ho Before stepping into a taxi a young girl struggles to take the city with her: Warm, sticky air bathing the street market, comforting scent of fragrant rice, pungent odor of dry fish, raw flesh hung on butchers' hooks, squawking of chickens in rusty wire prisons, crescendo of rickshaws, scooters, bicycles; the city she will no longer call home.
My Grandmother’s Recipe
I. I have yet to dust off my Tata’s recipe for croquettas de atún. I still have not gotten the hang of béchamel, the mother of all sauces. My daughter does not eat fish, also a factor. Learning to cook tuna fritters just how my grandmother used to. It is on my perpetual to-do list, like getting my driver’s license. It has been one year today since she died. II. My Mother once told me she couldn’t stand how people say passed away, such a feeble euphemism. The words numbing in their uncertainty.
“Asian Traumatic Poetics (part 2),” by Tammy Ho Lai-Ming
In the second installment of “Asian Traumatic Poetics” (to read part 1, click here), I will look at two more poems published in Cha that discuss and address uniquely Asian traumatic experiences: the painful realization that the home one has left behind is forever gone and the effects of the forced departure from one’s country. The way we sat at dinner over a dish of rank mussels and talked about food, one would have thought we had always been hungry.
Blackbirds: Greg Santos: 9781912477449: Books
Greg Santos’ Blackbirds is one of those brief but rare collections wherein every poem is to be enjoyed, indeed savoured. Standouts include “At the Room of Extinct Species On My Daughter’s Six-Month Birthday”, “I Have A Problem”, “Siem Reap, Cambodia”, “Insomniacs”, “Migration” and “Nov. 10, 2016”, although again, the other poems are also strong.
Greg Santos - Montreal, Québec, Canada, The New School, Columbia University, Concordia University, Mount Allison University
Greg Santos is the author of Rabbit Punch! (DC Books, 2014) and The Emperor's Sofa (DC Books, 2010). His writing has been featured in The Walrus, Queen's Quarterly, Geist, Vallum, The Feathertale Review, Ricepaper, Cha: An Asian Literary Journal, McSweeney's Internet Tendency, The Best American Poetry Blog, and World Literature Today. Santos regularly works with at-risk communities and he teaches writing and literature at The Thomas More Institute.
I Have a Problem
All I care about is everything. I like to lie down and look up at the stars, even when there are none. I am almost nothing but thoughts and water. I find mirrors unbearably off-putting. My children find them droll. Do you feel that too? My left hand feels like a cataclysmic storm. I will never tire of looking at my wife. Her smile is like a constant sonar beep in the depths of my chest. I hear rain even when it’s sunny out.
Greg Santos | The Walrus
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