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Mai Der Vang Yellow Rain (Paperback)
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- Condition
- Book Title
- Yellow Rain : Poems
- Publication Name
- Yellow Rain
- Title
- Yellow Rain
- Subtitle
- Poems
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- ISBN-10
- 1644450658
- EAN
- 9781644450659
- ISBN
- 9781644450659
- Publisher
- Graywolf Press
- Genre
- Poetry
- Topic
- American / Asian American
- Release Date
- 21/09/2021
- Release Year
- 2021
- Language
- English
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- US
- Item Height
- 0.6in
- Item Length
- 9in
- Item Width
- 7in
- Item Weight
- 14.1 Oz
- Publication Year
- 2021
- Number of Pages
- 176 Pages
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WINNER OF THE 2022 LENORE MARSHALL POETRY PRIZE FINALIST FOR THE 2022 PULITZER PRIZE IN POETRY FINALIST FOR THE 2022 PEN/VOELCKER AWARD FOR POETRY COLLECTION FINALIST FOR THE 2021 LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE FOR POETRY A reinvestigation of chemical biological weapons dropped on the Hmong people in the fallout of the Vietnam War In this staggering work of documentary, poetry, and collage, Mai Der Vang reopens a wrongdoing that deserves a new reckoning. As the United States abandoned them at the end of the Vietnam War, many Hmong refugees recounted stories of a mysterious substance that fell from planes during their escape from Laos starting in the mid-1970s. This substance, known as "yellow rain," caused severe illnesses and thousands of deaths. These reports prompted an investigation into allegations that a chemical biological weapon had been used against the Hmong in breach of international treaties. A Cold War scandal erupted, wrapped in partisan debate around chemical arms development versus control. And then, to the world's astonishment, American scientists argued that yellow rain was the feces of honeybees defecating en masse--still held as the widely accepted explanation. The truth of what happened to the Hmong, to those who experienced and suffered yellow rain, has been ignored and discredited. Integrating archival research and declassified documents, Yellow Rain calls out the erasure of a history, the silencing of a people who at the time lacked the capacity and resources to defend and represent themselves. In poems that sing and lament, that contend and question, Vang restores a vital narrative in danger of being lost, and brilliantly explores what it means to have access to the truth and how marginalized groups are often forbidden that access.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Graywolf Press
ISBN-10
1644450658
ISBN-13
9781644450659
eBay Product ID (ePID)
23050401428
Product Key Features
Book Title
Yellow Rain : Poems
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
American / Asian American
Publication Year
2021
Genre
Poetry
Number of Pages
176 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9in
Item Height
0.6in
Item Width
7in
Item Weight
14.1 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Ps3622.A646y45 2021
Reviews
"[Mai Der Vang] transform[s] the impersonal and politically and ethically deceitful into a vivid reclamation of the brutal truth." --Booklist , starred review "Vang memorably reckons with a complex and tragic cultural history." --Publishers Weekly "[Mai Der Vang] transform[s] the impersonal and politically and ethically deceitful into a vivid reclamation of the brutal truth."--Booklist, starred review"Mai Der Vang's Yellow Rain spoke to a piece of my heart that has yearned for such a work as this to come forth in response to the layered tragedies of our shared history, to establish a record in which our voices cannot be erased, our bodies forgotten, and our names forsaken. . . . An indictment of the highest and most poetic order." --Kao Kalia Yang "Mai Der Vang intensifies and innovates documentary poetics in Yellow Rain . It confronts empire's crimes against humanity and the interlocking power of science and military-industrial complex. Yellow Rain is a magnificent textual revolt against historical amnesia." --Don Mee Choi "Writing defiantly against the erasure and dismissal of Hmong experience, Mai Der Vang offers an intense condensation of Hmong knowledge and truth in Yellow Rain . This is an impressive accomplishment that blends poetry, archive, history, and polemic in a bravura effort to assert the being and voice of Hmong people." --Viet Thanh Nguyen, "With Yellow Rain, Vang scores onto the record the previously silenced experiences of Hmong, rupturing the erasures within Western accounts of history, all while holding the US government, media, and scientists accountable. It is revolutionary." --Poetry "[Mai Der Vang] transform[s] the impersonal and politically and ethically deceitful into a vivid reclamation of the brutal truth." --Booklist , starred review "Vang memorably reckons with a complex and tragic cultural history." --Publishers Weekly "[Mai Der Vang] transform[s] the impersonal and politically and ethically deceitful into a vivid reclamation of the brutal truth."--Booklist, starred review"Mai Der Vang's Yellow Rain spoke to a piece of my heart that has yearned for such a work as this to come forth in response to the layered tragedies of our shared history, to establish a record in which our voices cannot be erased, our bodies forgotten, and our names forsaken. . . . An indictment of the highest and most poetic order." --Kao Kalia Yang "Mai Der Vang intensifies and innovates documentary poetics in Yellow Rain . It confronts empire's crimes against humanity and the interlocking power of science and military-industrial complex. Yellow Rain is a magnificent textual revolt against historical amnesia." --Don Mee Choi "Writing defiantly against the erasure and dismissal of Hmong experience, Mai Der Vang offers an intense condensation of Hmong knowledge and truth in Yellow Rain . This is an impressive accomplishment that blends poetry, archive, history, and polemic in a bravura effort to assert the being and voice of Hmong people." --Viet Thanh Nguyen, "Mai Der Vang's Yellow Rain spoke to a piece of my heart that has yearned for such a work as this to come forth in response to the layered tragedies of our shared history, to establish a record in which our voices cannot be erased, our bodies forgotten, and our names forsaken. . . . An indictment of the highest and most poetic order." --Kao Kalia Yang "Mai Der Vang intensifies and innovates documentary poetics in Yellow Rain . It confronts empire's crimes against humanity and the interlocking power of science and military-industrial complex. Yellow Rain is a magnificent textual revolt against historical amnesia." --Don Mee Choi "Writing defiantly against the erasure and dismissal of Hmong experience, Mai Der Vang offers an intense condensation of Hmong knowledge and truth in Yellow Rain . This is an impressive accomplishment that blends poetry, archive, history, and polemic in a bravura effort to assert the being and voice of Hmong people." --Viet Thanh Nguyen, "With Yellow Rain, Vang scores onto the record the previously silenced experiences of Hmong, rupturing the erasures within Western accounts of history, all while holding the US government, media, and scientists accountable. It is revolutionary." --Poetry "[Mai Der Vang] transform[s] the impersonal and politically and ethically deceitful into a vivid reclamation of the brutal truth." --Booklist , starred review "Vang's lyrical interventions strike powerful notes of lamentation and rage." -- The New Yorker , Briefly Noted "Vang memorably reckons with a complex and tragic cultural history." --Publishers Weekly "[Mai Der Vang] transform[s] the impersonal and politically and ethically deceitful into a vivid reclamation of the brutal truth."--Booklist, starred review"Mai Der Vang's Yellow Rain spoke to a piece of my heart that has yearned for such a work as this to come forth in response to the layered tragedies of our shared history, to establish a record in which our voices cannot be erased, our bodies forgotten, and our names forsaken. . . . An indictment of the highest and most poetic order." --Kao Kalia Yang "Mai Der Vang intensifies and innovates documentary poetics in Yellow Rain . It confronts empire's crimes against humanity and the interlocking power of science and military-industrial complex. Yellow Rain is a magnificent textual revolt against historical amnesia." --Don Mee Choi "Writing defiantly against the erasure and dismissal of Hmong experience, Mai Der Vang offers an intense condensation of Hmong knowledge and truth in Yellow Rain . This is an impressive accomplishment that blends poetry, archive, history, and polemic in a bravura effort to assert the being and voice of Hmong people." --Viet Thanh Nguyen, "[Mai Der Vang] transform[s] the impersonal and politically and ethically deceitful into a vivid reclamation of the brutal truth." --Booklist , starred review "[Mai Der Vang] transform[s] the impersonal and politically and ethically deceitful into a vivid reclamation of the brutal truth."--Booklist, starred review"Mai Der Vang's Yellow Rain spoke to a piece of my heart that has yearned for such a work as this to come forth in response to the layered tragedies of our shared history, to establish a record in which our voices cannot be erased, our bodies forgotten, and our names forsaken. . . . An indictment of the highest and most poetic order." --Kao Kalia Yang "Mai Der Vang intensifies and innovates documentary poetics in Yellow Rain . It confronts empire's crimes against humanity and the interlocking power of science and military-industrial complex. Yellow Rain is a magnificent textual revolt against historical amnesia." --Don Mee Choi "Writing defiantly against the erasure and dismissal of Hmong experience, Mai Der Vang offers an intense condensation of Hmong knowledge and truth in Yellow Rain . This is an impressive accomplishment that blends poetry, archive, history, and polemic in a bravura effort to assert the being and voice of Hmong people." --Viet Thanh Nguyen, "Mai Der Vang's Yellow Rain spoke to a piece of my heart that has yearned for such a work as this to come forth in response to the layered tragedies of our shared history, to establish a record in which our voices cannot be erased, our bodies forgotten, and our names forsaken. . . . An indictment of the highest and most poetic order." --Kao Kalia Yang "Mai Der Vang intensifies and innovates documentary poetics in Yellow Rain . It confronts empire's crimes against humanity and the interlocking power of science and military-industrial complex. Yellow Rain is a magnificent textual revolt against historical amnesia." --Don Mee Choi
Target Audience
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Lccn
2020-951357
Dewey Decimal
811/.6
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes
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