Rules of the House by Tsering Wangmo Dhompa (Apogee Press, paperback)
Publication Date: December 1, 2002
Publisher Marketing: Poetry. Asian American Studies. "Dhompa's potent suite of poems elucidates the humanness and adversities of the Tibetan diaspora. You enter the immigrant girl-child's bifurcated world, coming and going, language to language, culture to culture, from childhood to sexuality. A lovely explication of 'dharma—things as they are, and how precious they are, no special pleading—Anne Waldman.
