Poems. Selections

We play a game / Duy Doan ; foreword by Carl Phillips.

New Haven : Yale University Press, [2018]

©2018

xxiii, 76 pages ; 22 cm.

BEIN Zac D6475 W3697 2018 : Number line on title page verso indicates first printing: "10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1." Dust jacket.

"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.

English

March 28, 2018

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