We play a game
Duy Doan · 2018
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About the book
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.
Book details
- Year
- 2018
- Language
- English
- Series
- Volume 112 of the Yale series of younger poets
- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- Editions
- 1
- Pages
- 76
- ISBN
- 9780300230871
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