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The Asian Music Unit at Goldsmiths and the SEA ArtsFest present: VERSES IN EXILE - featuring the true story and poetry of Kosal Khiev
“It was at that age that poetry came in search of me.” — Pablo Neruda
Some discover poetry in unrequited love. Others find poetry in the tranquility of falling snow. Kosal Khiev discovered his poetry in the darkness of solitary confinement inside a California maximum-security prison. As one of the youngest inmates in a Level 4 facility, Kosal survived incarceration to discover his destiny as a poet. He emerged from prison a 30-year-old man, only to be abandoned by the American justice system and exiled to a country from which his family fled decades before. Verses in Exile portrays the life of Kosal Khiev, a man who frees himself from 14 years of confinement and deportation to Cambodia by writing and re-telling his own journey from refugee to troubled youth, from prison survivor to poet. Dropped off 10,000 miles away from home, alone without family or documents, he must grapple with the harsh realities of a being a deportee while in pursuit of his own dreams. Kosal’s tangled tales of survival unwind on the streets of Phnom Penh. Armed with nothing more than memorized verses, Kosal’s journey is a strange fate that pulls him into unimaginable places. With no choice but to be performed entirely in Cambodia, these are his Verses In Exile.
Verses in Exile is a presentation of the Center for Asian American Media (CAAM) with funding provided by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
Free, but please register via the website.
VERSES IN EXILE
Featuring the true story and poetry of Kosal Khiev
Directed and edited by Masahiro Sugano
Filmed by Khean Long
Produced by Anida Yoeu Ali
Dates & times
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| 9 Oct 2014 | 5:00pm - 8:00pm |
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