MON (Monuments, Monarchs & Monsters)

Author: Mina Khan

Publisher: Sputnik & Fizzle (2020)

Trauma molds the collective memory that Mina Khan’s poems relay in this debut collection of poetry, interlacing autobiographical examination with the rigor of researched fact. These poems rupture through a generational understanding between mother, father, and child, and rekindle old symbols through the ashes of contemporary seeing. If ancestry leads the poet toward massacre and war-torn worlds, MON’s stunning autofictions recover the flaked past within living monuments.