{"product_id":"36-ways-of-writing-a-vietnamese-poem-hardcover","title":"36 Ways of Writing a Vietnamese Poem - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eNam Le\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn explosive, devastating debut book of poetry from the acclaimed author of \u003ci\u003eThe Boat\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn his first international release since the award-winning, best-selling \u003ci\u003eThe Boat, \u003c\/i\u003e Nam Le delivers a shot across the bow with a book-length poem that honors every convention of diasporic literature--in a virtuosic array of forms and registers--before shattering the form itself. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn line with the works of Claudia Rankine, Cathy Park Hong, and Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, this book is an urgent, unsettling reckoning with identity--and the violence of identity. For Le, a Vietnamese refugee in the West, this means the assumed violence of racism, oppression, and historical trauma. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBut it also means the violence of that assumption. Of being always assumed to be outside one's home, country, culture, or language. And the complex violence--for the diasporic writer who wants to address any of this--of language itself. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMaking use of multiple tones, moods, masks, and camouflages, Le's poetic debut moves with unpredictable and destabilizing energy between the personal and the political. As self-indicting as it is scathing, hilarious as it is desperately moving, this is a singular, breakthrough book.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eNAM LE's poetry has been published in\u003ci\u003e Poetry\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe American Poetry Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Paris Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eGranta\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBomb\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eConjunctions\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBoston Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Monthly\u003c\/i\u003e and other places. He has received major awards in America, Europe and Australia, including the PEN\/Malamud Award, the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, the Dylan Thomas Prize, the Australian Prime Minister's Literary Award and the Melbourne Prize for Literature. His short story collection \u003ci\u003eThe Boat \u003c\/i\u003ehas been republished as a modern classic, and is widely translated, anthologized, and taught. He lives in Melbourne, Australia.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 80\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.63 x 8.35 x 5.43 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 05, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51763682967840,"sku":"9780593537206","price":28.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/223b8a1e52006b468b97ca6c075f3a9c.webp?v=1780239048","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/36-ways-of-writing-a-vietnamese-poem-hardcover","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}