36 Ways of Writing a Vietnamese Poem - Hardcover By Le, Nam - VERY GOOD

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ISBN
9780593537206
Book Title
36 Ways of Writing a Vietnamese Poem
Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Item Length
8.5 in
Publication Year
2024
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Item Height
0.5 in
Author
Nam Le
Genre
Poetry
Topic
American / Asian American, Asian / General, Subjects & Themes / General
Item Weight
7.6 Oz
Item Width
5.8 in
Number of Pages
80 Pages
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Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0593537203
ISBN-13
9780593537206
eBay Product ID (ePID)
11061231142

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Book Title
36 Ways of Writing a Vietnamese Poem
Number of Pages
80 Pages
Language
English
Topic
American / Asian American, Asian / General, Subjects & Themes / General
Publication Year
2024
Genre
Poetry
Author
Nam Le
Format
Hardcover

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Item Height
0.5 in
Item Weight
7.6 Oz
Item Length
8.5 in
Item Width
5.8 in

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2023-015395
Reviews
"Exquisitely crafted fire bombs of incandescent rage. Moving and powerful." --Nick Cave "From the opening lines, I knew this book would gut me. I wasn't wrong. 36 Ways of Writing a Vietnamese Poem is an exhaustive examination of the complex stew of emotions every displaced person experiences. In Nam Le's deft hands, deep scholarship is transformed into a nimble, nuanced romp, replete with devastating wit, sonic acrobatics, and superb mouth feel. I've been waiting for this book all my diasporic life." --Barbara Tran, author of In the Mynah Bird's Own Words, "From the opening lines, I knew this book would gut me. I wasn't wrong. 36 Ways of Writing a Vietnamese Poem is an exhaustive examination of the complex stew of emotions every displaced person experiences. In Nam Le's deft hands, deep scholarship is transformed into a nimble, nuanced romp, replete with devastating wit, sonic acrobatics, and superb mouth feel. I've been waiting for this book all my diasporic life." --Barbara Tran, author of In the Mynah Bird's Own Words, "Each poem in 36 Ways of Writing a Vietnamese Poem stings as if Nam Le burned syllables onto the page with a pyrographic pen. These poems seethe and sing; they restlessly shapeshift as Nam Le tries to find a mode of speech or form that could capture the violent history of war and the experience of deracination. But the English language stops short and he captures that gap--and the unspeakable realms of racialized consciousness--with virtuousic and ineffable beauty." --Cathy Park Hong, author of Minor Feelings "With a cool outsider's eye, Nam Le takes the English language to pieces and reassembles it with a virtuoso ease not seen since Finnegans Wake. There is wit aplenty, of a dancing, ironic kind, but the fury and the bitterness that underlie 36 Ways come without disguise, as do its moments of aching love and loss. Nam Le is a poet working at the height of his powers. Each of the poems comes with its own explosive charge; taken together, they are capable of shaking Western self-regard to its foundations." --J.M. Coetzee, Nobel Laureate 2003 "Exquisitely crafted fire bombs of incandescent rage. Moving and powerful." -- Nick Cave "Where do we locate meaning when we know a word can collapse in on itself at any moment, leaving just the earthy music at its core? Somehow these poems have me dancing above that sinkhole, flirting with its mayhem. Nam Le's debut collection 36 Ways of Writing a Vietnamese Poem is, like the poet, a chimera of ferocious wit, lyricism and play. But this book is deadly serious. Le leaves no doubt that he means it. He means every word of it."-- Gregory Pardlo, author of Spectral Evidence "A masterly performance. With defiant playfulness and wit Nam Le dramatises for us (for 'You') the challenging contradictions of being a writer in the 'Unself-consciousness' of the Vietnamese diaspora." --David Malouf, author of Remembering Babylon "Le's verve and uncanny ear for language drive this stunning collection that explores the varied and often tense ways of living as part of the Vietnamese diaspora. The book simultaneously dismantles linguistic and hegemonic forces of violence which plague the diasporic condition and also threads a fine lyric in which I felt deeply moved. In Le's poems, I am both witness and can find myself in the larger tapestry. This book is fine electricity." --Diana Khoi Nguyen, author of Ghost Of "Nam Le's exhilarating 36 Ways of Writing a Vietnamese Poem is not just highly inventive but deeply compelling. The lively poetics of the book goes something like this: "The house in my head / I name home. / Though where I'm really from / The dead bird stays dead." The poems move swiftly in a kind of syncopated telegraphic language creating a direct confrontation with all that they interrogate, braiding language, culture, translation, migration, history, and poetry itself. The writing is lyrical, musical, intelligent, and beautiful. It's a great book." --Peter Gizzi, author of Fierce Elegy "From the opening lines, I knew this book would gut me. I wasn't wrong. 36 Ways of Writing a Vietnamese Poem is an exhaustive examination of the complex stew of emotions every displaced person experiences. In Nam Le's deft hands, deep scholarship is transformed into a nimble, nuanced romp, replete with devastating wit, sonic acrobatics, and superb mouth feel. I've been waiting for this book all my diasporic life." --Barbara Tran, author of Precedented Parroting
Dewey Edition
23/eng/20230403
Dewey Decimal
823/.92
Synopsis
An explosive, devastating debut book of poetry from the acclaimed author of The Boat In his first international release since the award-winning, best-selling The Boat, 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. In 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. But 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. Making 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.
LC Classification Number
PR9619.4.L398A16

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