Bibliograph

We play a game, Duy Doan ; foreword by Carl Phillips

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We play a game, Duy Doan ; foreword by Carl Phillips

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 69-74)

Index

no index present

Literary Form

poetry

Main title

We play a game

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

1002129625

Responsibility statement

Duy Doan ; foreword by Carl Phillips

Series statement

Yale series of younger poets, volume 112

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."--Jacket

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