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Finalist for the Chautauqua Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the PEN USA Literary Center Award, and the Dayton Literary Peace Prize
In the Hmong tradition, the song poet recounts the story of his people, their history and tragedies, joys and losses. He keeps the past alive, invokes the spirits and the homeland, and records courtships, births, weddings, and wishes.
Following her award-winning memoir The Latehomecomer, Kao Kalia Yang now retells the life of her father, Bee Yang, the song poet-a Hmong refugee in Minnesota, driven from the mountains of Laos by America's Secret War. Bee sings the life of his people through the war-torn jungle and a Thai refugee camp. The songs fall away in the cold, bitter world of a St. Paul housing project and on the factory floor, until, with the death of Bee's mother, they leave him for good. But before they do, Bee, with his poetry, has burnished a life of poverty for his children, polishing their grim reality so that they might shine.
Finalist for the Chautauqua Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the PEN USA Literary Center Award, and the Dayton Literary Peace Prize
In the Hmong tradition, the song poet recounts the story of his people, their history and tragedies, joys and losses. He keeps the past alive, invokes the spirits and the homeland, and records courtships, births, weddings, and wishes.
Following her award-winning memoir The Latehomecomer, Kao Kalia Yang now retells the life of her father, Bee Yang, the song poet-a Hmong refugee in Minnesota, driven from the mountains of Laos by America's Secret War. Bee sings the life of his people through the war-torn jungle and a Thai refugee camp. The songs fall away in the cold, bitter world of a St. Paul housing project and on the factory floor, until, with the death of Bee's mother, they leave him for good. But before they do, Bee, with his poetry, has burnished a life of poverty for his children, polishing their grim reality so that they might shine.
CONTENTS
Album Notes
SIDE A: BIRTH OF A SONG POET-BEE YANG
Track 1: Birth of a Song Poet
Track 2: A Fatherless Boyhood
Track 3: Brothers and Sisters
Track 4: Love Song
Track 5: Cry of Machines
SIDE B: SONG FOR MY CHILDREN-KAO KALIA YANG
Track 6: Doctors and Lawyers
Track 7: The Son Must Rise
Track 8: Song of Separation
Track 9: Dreams and Nightmares
Track 10: Return to Laos (Duet)
Album Notes
Acknowledgments
Erscheinungsjahr: | 2017 |
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Genre: | Biographien, Importe |
Rubrik: | Belletristik |
Medium: | Taschenbuch |
Inhalt: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
ISBN-13: | 9781250131881 |
ISBN-10: | 125013188X |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Einband: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
Autor: | Yang, Kao Kalia |
Hersteller: | Henry Holt & Company |
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: | Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de |
Maße: | 208 x 139 x 25 mm |
Von/Mit: | Kao Kalia Yang |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 09.05.2017 |
Gewicht: | 0,252 kg |
CONTENTS
Album Notes
SIDE A: BIRTH OF A SONG POET-BEE YANG
Track 1: Birth of a Song Poet
Track 2: A Fatherless Boyhood
Track 3: Brothers and Sisters
Track 4: Love Song
Track 5: Cry of Machines
SIDE B: SONG FOR MY CHILDREN-KAO KALIA YANG
Track 6: Doctors and Lawyers
Track 7: The Son Must Rise
Track 8: Song of Separation
Track 9: Dreams and Nightmares
Track 10: Return to Laos (Duet)
Album Notes
Acknowledgments
Erscheinungsjahr: | 2017 |
---|---|
Genre: | Biographien, Importe |
Rubrik: | Belletristik |
Medium: | Taschenbuch |
Inhalt: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
ISBN-13: | 9781250131881 |
ISBN-10: | 125013188X |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Einband: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
Autor: | Yang, Kao Kalia |
Hersteller: | Henry Holt & Company |
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: | Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de |
Maße: | 208 x 139 x 25 mm |
Von/Mit: | Kao Kalia Yang |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 09.05.2017 |
Gewicht: | 0,252 kg |