Thousand star hotel
By: Bao Phi
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 110
ISBN-13: 9781566894708
Subjects: Asian American authors; Vietnamese Americans; Poetry; American poetry
Description: "Thousand Star Hotel confronts the silence around racism, police brutality, and the invisibility of the Asian American urban poor. From "with thanks to Sahra Nguyen for the refugee style slogan": They give the kids candy to bet. My daughter loses the first four rounds, she's a quiet wire as they take her candy away, piece by piece. When she finally wins, I ask if she wants to play again. No! she shouts, grabbing her candy, I want to go home! True refugee style: take everything you got and run with it. Bao Phi is a National Poetry Slam finalist"--