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36 ways of writing a Vietnamese poem / Nam Le.

36 ways of writing a Vietnamese poem / Nam Le.
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821.4 LE
 Adult Non Fiction   Adult Lending . On Loan . 17 Jun 2024
Reserve Title Catalogue Record 700043039
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ISBN 9781761423369 (hardback)
Classification 821.4 LE
Personal Name Le, Nam, 1979-
Title 36 ways of writing a Vietnamese poem / Nam Le.
Variant Title Thirty six ways of writing a Vietnamese poem
Production & Copyright Details Cammeray, NSW : Scribner, 2024.
©2024
Physical Description 66 pages : illustration ; 23 cm
Content type text
still image
Summary Note 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 honours 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.
Subject - Topical Term Australian poetry
Subject - Genre Poetry
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