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1 online resource |
| Series |
Volume 112 of the Yale series of younger poets |
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Yale series of younger poets ; v. 112.
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| Contents |
Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Foreword; Ca; We Play a Game Using Tomatoes; From the Provinces; Romanticizing Vietnam; Love Trinkets; Arrangements; Dancing School; Duet; Spelling Out My Name, or Proof of the Military Industrial Complex; First-Person Plural; Ask Mr. Owl; Spelling Out My Name in Vietnamese, or Proof of the Military Industrial Complex; Motherâ#x80;#x99;s Dirge; You; TÃƠm; Three Tongue Twisters; Bridge Ghosts; Crayola; Poem with a Rat in It; Surge; Wristwatch; Whispers; Allegory for Family Members; Expecting; Lake Hoà n Ki[omited]m; Prayer in Writing; History Lesson from Anh Hai |
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The Mercedes Out FrontMÃ ; The Cowboy; Hedgehog in the Fog; Chores for the Oldest Daughter; Surge; Rat-tat-tat; Post-mortem with My Little Brother; The Roundworm Travels Up from the Foot; Another Way of Explaining It; Scuttle; T[omited]i Nghi[omited]p, cat; Rickshaw Boy; Study Habits; Soccer; Notes; Acknowledgments |
| Summary |
"Duy Doan's striking debut reveals the wide resonance of the collection's unassuming title, in poems that explore--now with abundant humor, now with a deeply felt reserve--the ambiguities and tensions that mark our effort to know our histories, our loved ones, and ourselves. These are poems that draw from Doan's experience as a Vietnamese-American while at the same time making a case for--and masterfully playing with--the fluidity of identity, history, and language. Nothing is alien to these poems: the Saigon of a mother's dirge, the footballer Zinedine Zidane, an owl that "talks to his other self in the well"--All have a place in Doan's far-reaching and intimately human art."--Back cover |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed March 6, 2018) |
| Subject |
American poetry -- Asian American authors.
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FICTION -- General.
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American poetry -- Asian American authors
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| Genre/Form |
poetry.
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Poetry
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Poetry.
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Poésie.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780300235258 |
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0300235259 |
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