We play a game
By: Duy Doan ; foreword by Carl Phillips
Contributors: Phillips, Carl, 1959- writer of foreword
Series: Volume 112 of the Yale series of younger poets
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 76
ISBN-13: 9780300230871; 9780300230888
Copyright date: 2018
Subjects: Asian American authors; American poetry
Work titles: Poems
Description: "Duy Doan's striking debut reveals the wide resonance of the collection's unassuming title, in poems that explore--now with abundant humor, now with a deeply felt reserve--the ambiguities and tensions that mark our effort to know our histories, our loved ones, and ourselves. These are poems that draw from Doan's experience as a Vietnamese-American while at the same time making a case for--and masterfully playing with--the fluidity of identity, history, and language. Nothing is alien to these poems: the Saigon of a mother's dirge, the footballer Zinedine Zidane, an owl that "talks to his other self in the well"--all have a place in Doan's far-reaching and intimately human art." -- Back cover.
Notes: Poems.