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The Song Poet: A Memoir of My Father
by Yang, Kao Kalia
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- Paperback
- Condition
- Very good. The Song Poet: A Memoir of My Father by Kao Kalia Yang (Author)...SOFTCOVER CONDITION VERY GOOD-COPYRIGHT 2017--PUBLI
- ISBN 10
- 125013188X
- ISBN 13
- 9781250131881
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New York: Picador USA, 2017. Trade paperback. Very good. The Song Poet: A Memoir of My Father by Kao Kalia Yang (Author)...SOFTCOVER CONDITION VERY GOOD-COPYRIGHT 2017--PUBLISHED BY HENRY HOLT CO-271 PAGES BOOK SIZE 5 1/8 X 8...Winner of the 2017 Minnesota Book Award in Creative Nonfiction... The Song Poet: A Memoir of My Father by Kao Kalia Yang (Author)...SOFTCOVER CONDITION VERY GOOD-COPYRIGHT 2017--PUBLISHED BY HENRY HOLT CO-271 PAGES BOOK SIZE 5 1/8 X 8...Winner of the 2017 Minnesota Book Award in Creative Nonfiction Finalist fo The Song Poet: A Memoir of My Father by Kao Kalia Yang (Author)...SOFTCOVER CONDITION VERY GOOD-COPYRIGHT 2017--PUBLISHED BY HENRY HOLT CO-271 PAGES BOOK SIZE 5 1/8 X 8...Winner of the 2017 Minnesota Book Award in Creative Nonfiction Finalist for the Chautauqua Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the PEN USA Literary Center Award, and the Dayton Literary Peace Prize In the Hmong tradition, the song poet recounts the story of his people, their history and tragedies, joys and losses. He keeps the past alive, invokes the spirits and the homeland, and records courtships, births, weddings, and wishes. Following her award-winning memoir The Latehomecomer, Kao Kalia Yang now retells the life of her father, Bee Yang, the song poet― a Hmong refugee in Minnesota, driven from the mountains of Laos by America s Secret War. Bee sings the life of his people through the war-torn jungle and a Thai refugee camp. The songs fall away in the cold, bitter world of a St. Paul housing project and on the factory floor, until, with the death of Bee s mother, they leave him for good. But before they do, Bee, with his poetry, has burnished a life of poverty for his children, polishing their grim reality so that they might shine.
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- Red Rover Do Over (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- Alibris.0041094
- Title
- The Song Poet: A Memoir of My Father
- Author
- Yang, Kao Kalia
- Format/Binding
- Trade paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good. The Song Poet: A Memoir of My Father by Kao Kalia Yang (Author)...SOFTCOVER CONDITION VERY GOOD-COPYRIGHT 2017--PUBLI
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 125013188X
- ISBN 13
- 9781250131881
- Publisher
- Picador USA
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2017
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