Sweet Butter Tea: A Book of Poems

Sweet Butter Tea is a collection of poems that spontaneously sprangfrom the most personal memories and childhood recollections ofexiled Tibetan Ten Phun. Since his escape into India, Ten Phun hasexperienced a bewildering sense of loss, harrowing loneliness, aswell as lively times in a borrowed space. This volume is pepperedwith eclectic images of confusion, nostalgia, and the poet’s deeplonging to be back in his home of Tibet.“I don’t know how old my heart is, I only know my five-o’clockshadow tells it all,” Ten Phun writes. This book of poetry promisesa dizzying journey into a young adult refugee’s struggles, dreams,and musings, all packed into bite-sized verses that grasp at truth andattempt to put into words the anguish of physical, emotional, andpsychological dislocation.