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.
| ISBN: | 9780300230888 |
| Publication date: | 29th May 2018 |
| Author: | Duy Doan, Carl Phillips |
| Publisher: | Yale University Press |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 104 pages |
| Series: | Yale Series of Younger Poets |
| Genres: |
Poetry by individual poets |