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Author Doan, Duy, author.

Title We Play a Game / Duy Doan.

Publication Info. [New Haven, Conn.] : Yale University Press, [2018]
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Physical Medium polychrome
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Series Volume 112 of the Yale series of younger poets
Yale series of younger poets ; v. 112.
Contents Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Foreword; Ca; We Play a Game Using Tomatoes; From the Provinces; Romanticizing Vietnam; Love Trinkets; Arrangements; Dancing School; Duet; Spelling Out My Name, or Proof of the Military Industrial Complex; First-Person Plural; Ask Mr. Owl; Spelling Out My Name in Vietnamese, or Proof of the Military Industrial Complex; Motherâ#x80;#x99;s Dirge; You; TÃƠm; Three Tongue Twisters; Bridge Ghosts; Crayola; Poem with a Rat in It; Surge; Wristwatch; Whispers; Allegory for Family Members; Expecting; Lake Hoà n Ki[omited]m; Prayer in Writing; History Lesson from Anh Hai.
The Mercedes Out FrontMÃ ; The Cowboy; Hedgehog in the Fog; Chores for the Oldest Daughter; Surge; Rat-tat-tat; Post-mortem with My Little Brother; The Roundworm Travels Up from the Foot; Another Way of Explaining It; Scuttle; T[omited]i Nghi[omited]p, cat; Rickshaw Boy; Study Habits; Soccer; Notes; Acknowledgments.
Summary "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.
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Subject American poetry -- Asian American authors.
American poetry -- Asian American authors.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Poetry.
Poetry.
ISBN 9780300235258 (electronic book)
0300235259 (electronic book)
9780300230871