We play a game / Duy Doan ; foreword by Carl Phillips.
"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...
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| Other title: | Poems. Selections |
| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New Haven :
Yale University Press,
[2018]
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| Series: | Yale series of younger poets
v. 112. |
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| Summary: | "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."--Jacket. |
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| Item Description: | Poems. |
| Physical Description: | xxiii, 76 pages ; 22 cm. |
| Awards: | Lambda Literary Award - Bisexual Poetry, 2018 |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 69-74). |
| ISBN: | 9780300230888 0300230885 9780300230871 0300230877 |