36 Ways Of Writing a Vietnamese Poem (Hardback) - Nam Le
Nam Le
Fifteen years after his best-selling, award-winning collection of storiesĀ The Boat, Nam Le returns to his great themes of identity and representation inĀ a virtuosic debut book of poetry
36 Ways of Writing a Vietnamese Poem, says Le, a Vietnamese refugee to Australia, is āthe book I need to write. The book I've been writing my whole lifeā. This book-length poem is an urgent, unsettling reckoning with identity and the violence of identity, embedded with racism, oppression and historical trauma. But it also addresses the violence in those assumptions ā of being always assumed to be outside oneās 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, Leās poetic debut moves with unpredictable and destabilising energy between the personal and political, honouring every convention of diasporic literature ā in a virtuosic array of forms and registers ā before shattering the form itself. LikeĀ The Boat,Ā 36 Ways of Writing a Vietnamese PoemĀ conjures its own terms of engagement, escapes our traps, slips our certainties. As self-indicting as it is scathing, hilarious as it is desperately moving, this is a singular, breakthrough book.
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$6.7836 Ways Of Writing a Vietnamese Poem (Hardback) - Nam Le
Nam Le
Fifteen years after his best-selling, award-winning collection of storiesĀ The Boat, Nam Le returns to his great themes of identity and representation inĀ a virtuosic debut book of poetry
36 Ways of Writing a Vietnamese Poem, says Le, a Vietnamese refugee to Australia, is āthe book I need to write. The book I've been writing my whole lifeā. This book-length poem is an urgent, unsettling reckoning with identity and the violence of identity, embedded with racism, oppression and historical trauma. But it also addresses the violence in those assumptions ā of being always assumed to be outside oneās 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, Leās poetic debut moves with unpredictable and destabilising energy between the personal and political, honouring every convention of diasporic literature ā in a virtuosic array of forms and registers ā before shattering the form itself. LikeĀ The Boat,Ā 36 Ways of Writing a Vietnamese PoemĀ conjures its own terms of engagement, escapes our traps, slips our certainties. As self-indicting as it is scathing, hilarious as it is desperately moving, this is a singular, breakthrough book.
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Nam Le
Fifteen years after his best-selling, award-winning collection of storiesĀ The Boat, Nam Le returns to his great themes of identity and representation inĀ a virtuosic debut book of poetry
36 Ways of Writing a Vietnamese Poem, says Le, a Vietnamese refugee to Australia, is āthe book I need to write. The book I've been writing my whole lifeā. This book-length poem is an urgent, unsettling reckoning with identity and the violence of identity, embedded with racism, oppression and historical trauma. But it also addresses the violence in those assumptions ā of being always assumed to be outside oneās 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, Leās poetic debut moves with unpredictable and destabilising energy between the personal and political, honouring every convention of diasporic literature ā in a virtuosic array of forms and registers ā before shattering the form itself. LikeĀ The Boat,Ā 36 Ways of Writing a Vietnamese PoemĀ conjures its own terms of engagement, escapes our traps, slips our certainties. As self-indicting as it is scathing, hilarious as it is desperately moving, this is a singular, breakthrough book.
