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The Song Poet by Kao Kalia Yang Hardcover Book Hmong Bee Story History Records
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Item specifics
- Condition
- ISBN
- 9781627794947
- Book Title
- Song Poet : a Memoir of My Father
- Publisher
- Holt & Company, Henry
- Item Length
- 8.6 in
- Publication Year
- 2016
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Illustrator
- Yes
- Item Height
- 1 in
- Genre
- Family & Relationships, Biography & Autobiography, Social Science
- Topic
- Parenting / Fatherhood, Ethnic Studies / Asian American Studies, Composers & Musicians, General
- Item Weight
- 13.1 Oz
- Item Width
- 5.8 in
- Number of Pages
- 288 Pages
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Product Information
FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD AND THE MINNESOTA BOOK AWARD 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.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Holt & Company, Henry
ISBN-10
1627794948
ISBN-13
9781627794947
eBay Product ID (ePID)
218894305
Product Key Features
Book Title
Song Poet : a Memoir of My Father
Number of Pages
288 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2016
Topic
Parenting / Fatherhood, Ethnic Studies / Asian American Studies, Composers & Musicians, General
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Family & Relationships, Biography & Autobiography, Social Science
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1 in
Item Weight
13.1 Oz
Item Length
8.6 in
Item Width
5.8 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
23
Reviews
Praise for The Latehomecomer :"This is the best account of the Hmong experience I've ever read-powerful, heartbreaking, and unforgettable." - Anne Fadiman, author of The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down "A narrative packed with the stuff of life." - Entertainment Weekly "Yang tells her family's story with outstanding beauty and lyricism." - St. Paul Pioneer Press, "A remarkable book . . . The Song Poet reaffirms Yang's status as an exceptional storyteller, one whose work reminds us that big, timeless truths reveal themselves when we pay attention to small, specific details." --Star Tribune (Minneapolis) "Inventive and touching . . . An elegantly written, moving testament to so many aspects of the human experience." --Pioneer Press (St. Paul) "Kao Kalia Yang allows us to hear the whispered sorrows and hopes of those transplanted onto foreign soil among strangers. I predict that this mystical and historical memoir--of her Hmong family's suffering in Laos, of the rigors and fears of their life in a refugee camp, of the shock of finding themselves unprepared for city living in Minnesota, and of the pain of discrimination--will become a classic." --Jane Hamilton-Merritt, author of Tragic Mountains: The Hmong, the Americans, and the Secret Wars for Laos, 1942-1992, "Remarkable . . . Yang is an exceptional storyteller, one whose work reminds us that big, timeless truths reveal themselves when we pay attention to small, specific details." --Minneapolis Star Tribune "Inventive and touching . . . An elegantly written, moving testament to so many aspects of the human experience." --Pioneer Press (St. Paul) "Hauntingly lyrical . . . A memorable and moving immigrant story."-- Booklist "A stellar memoir . . . Yang powerfully demonstrates that much of what society doesn't hold valuable--gifts and talents that don't translate into monetary or educational success--still carry immense value, if only we choose to see it."-- Library Journal (starred review) "Kao Kalia Yang allows us to hear the whispered sorrows and hopes of those transplanted onto foreign soil among strangers. I predict that this mystical and historical memoir--of her Hmong family's suffering in Laos, of the rigors and fears of their life in a refugee camp, of the shock of finding themselves unprepared for city living in Minnesota, and of the pain of discrimination--will become a classic."--Jane Hamilton-Merritt, author of Tragic Mountains: The Hmong, the Americans, and the Secret Wars for Laos, 1942-1992
Lccn
2015-032156
Dewey Decimal
305.8959/72073
Lc Classification Number
F615.H55y36 2016
Table of Content
Album Notes 1 Side A: Birth of a Song Poet--Bee Yang Track 1: Birth of a Song Poet 23 Track 2: A Fatherless Boyhood 32 Track 3: Brothers and Sisters 57 Track 4: Love Song 94 Track 5: Cry of Machines 111 Side B: Song for My Children--Kao Kalia Yang Track 6: Doctors and Lawyers 133 Track 7: The Son Must Rise 165 Track 8: Song of Separation 203 Track 9: Dreams and Nightmares 222 Track 10: Return to Laos (Duet) 239 Album Notes 257 Acknowledgments 269
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2016
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