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36 Ways of Writing a Vietnamese Poem

by Nam Le
Nam Le
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An explosive, devastating debut book of poetry from the acclaimed author of The Boat
In his first international release since the award-winning, best-selling The Boat, Nam Le delivers a shot across the bow with a book-length poem that honors every convention of diasporic literature—in a virtuosic array of forms and registers—before shattering the form itself.
In line with the works of Claudia Rankine, Cathy Park Hong, and Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, this book is an urgent, unsettling reckoning with identity—and the violence of identity. For Le, a Vietnamese refugee in the West, this means the assumed violence of racism, oppression, and historical trauma.
But it also means the violence of that assumption. Of being always assumed to be outside one’s home, country, culture, or language. And the complex violence—for the diasporic writer who wants to address any of this—of language itself.
Making use of multiple tones, moods, masks, and camouflages, Le’s poetic debut moves with unpredictable and destabilizing energy between the personal and the political. As self-indicting as it is scathing, hilarious as it is desperately moving, this is a singular, breakthrough book.
*This audiobook includes a downloadable PDF of visual elements from the book, to reference for several of the poems.
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Publisher: Books on Tape Edition: Unabridged

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  • ISBN: 9780593825334
  • File size: 37193 KB
  • Release date: March 5, 2024
  • Duration: 01:17:29

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  • ISBN: 9780593825334
  • File size: 37201 KB
  • Release date: March 5, 2024
  • Duration: 01:17:29
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An explosive, devastating debut book of poetry from the acclaimed author of The Boat
In his first international release since the award-winning, best-selling The Boat, Nam Le delivers a shot across the bow with a book-length poem that honors every convention of diasporic literature—in a virtuosic array of forms and registers—before shattering the form itself.
In line with the works of Claudia Rankine, Cathy Park Hong, and Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, this book is an urgent, unsettling reckoning with identity—and the violence of identity. For Le, a Vietnamese refugee in the West, this means the assumed violence of racism, oppression, and historical trauma.
But it also means the violence of that assumption. Of being always assumed to be outside one’s home, country, culture, or language. And the complex violence—for the diasporic writer who wants to address any of this—of language itself.
Making use of multiple tones, moods, masks, and camouflages, Le’s poetic debut moves with unpredictable and destabilizing energy between the personal and the political. As self-indicting as it is scathing, hilarious as it is desperately moving, this is a singular, breakthrough book.
*This audiobook includes a downloadable PDF of visual elements from the book, to reference for several of the poems.
Expand title description text
Fiction Poetry
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    Publisher:
    Books on Tape
    Edition:
    Unabridged

    OverDrive Listen audiobook
    ISBN: 9780593825334
    File size: 37193 KB
    Release date: March 5, 2024
    Duration: 01:17:29

    MP3 audiobook
    ISBN: 9780593825334
    File size: 37201 KB
    Release date: March 5, 2024
    Duration: 01:17:29
    Number of parts: 1

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