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"From the author of The Latehomecomer, a powerful memoir of her father, a Hmong song poet who sacrificed his gift for his children's future in America. In the Hmong tradition, the song poet recounts the story of his people, their history and tragedies, joys and losses; extemporizing or drawing on folk tales, he keeps the past alive, invokes the spirits and the homeland, and records courtships, births, weddings, and wishes. Following her award-winning book The Latehomecomer, Kao Kalia Yang now retells the life of her father Bee Yang, the song poet, a Hmong refugee in Minnesota, driven from the mountains of Laos by American's Secret War. Bee lost his father as a young boy and keenly felt his orphanhood. He would wander from one neighbor to the next, collecting the things they said to each other, whispering the words to himself at night until, one day, a song was born. Bee sings the life of his people through the war-torn jungle and a Thai refugee camp. But the songs fall away in the cold, bitter world of a Minneapolis housing project and on the factory floor until, with the death of Bee's mother, the songs leave him for good. But before they do, Bee, with his poetry, has polished a life of poverty for his children, burnished their grim reality so that they might shine. Written with the exquisite beauty for which Kao Kalia Yang is renowned, The Song Poet is a love story--of a daughter for her father, a father for his children, a people for their land, their traditions, and all that they have lost"--… (més)
Several years ago I read Yang's first memoir and found it beautiful and, perhaps more importantly, eye-opening. In this follow-up, she enhances the story of her family's history, their flight from Laos following the Vietnam War, and the challenges of forging a new life in the United States as refugees by focusing on the narrative through the eyes of her father, the song-poet Bee Yang.
While there was a sense of repetition in this story when compared with The Latehomecomer, Yang's prose and writing style are gorgeous and a delight to read, and she handles the frequently heavy content with honesty and grace. While reading I felt as though I've been warmly welcomed into the Yang home, and now that it has been seven years since this book was written I can't help but wonder how everyone is doing, especially Xue. ( )
Marshall writes movingly of her quest for a fuller, richer relationship with God. She reveals the challenges her faith underwent and how personal tragedies led to a new understanding of the Spirit's work.
nonfiction/lyrical memoir (Hmong Americans). This book got very good reviews so if you are interested in the topic give it a try. It is possible that I just can't read books about poets of any sort, but may try to locate a copy of the author's first memoir to read instead. ( )
I did not think this was going to be my kind of book, but I fell in love with it. In this memoir, Yang attempts to tell her father's story from many perspectives, including his own. It is elegantly and imaginatively written, and by the end I felt I knew Yang's family nearly as well as my own. ( )
This is the true story of a courageous family who put family and love first. In some ways it is the continuing story of the author, Kao Kalia Yang’s family told in her first book, “The Late Homecomer”, only the focus of this book is her father, Bee Yang, who was orphaned as a young child, something that affected him his whole life. Bee Yang is a Song Poet, recognized as a teller of stories of the Hmong people including folktales and personal histories. Author Kao Kalia Yang tells her family’s story in familiar lyrical style with unflinching honesty. In some ways it is a complex book about a loving, caring family, who like so many other Hmong people faced enormous obstacles, including enormous prejudice and discrimination, and great personal sacrifice in the hope of making a better life for their families in America after the Vietnam War. I believe It is a testament, not only to her family, but also to the many Hmong families and veterans who emigrated to the United States after the War. This well-written, powerful book is a must-read for everyone, but especially for those who have an interest in Hmong American history.
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Kwv txhiaj is, in the words of Ralph Ellison on American blues,
"an impulse to keep the painful details and episodes of a brutal experience alive in one's aching consciousness, to finger its jagged grain, and to transcend it, not by the consolation of philosophy but by squeezing from it a near-tragic, near-cosmic lyricism. As a form, the blues is an autobiographical chronicle of personal catastrophe expressed lyrically."
Kwv txhiaj songs can be duets: the voices of fathers and daughters coming together, different verses within the same song, stanzas in the same poem.
Dedicatòria
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For the suns that rise on the horizons we've yet to see, for my brothers and sisters, my sons and daughters.
For my father, Bee Yang, who sings his lonely songs so that we may hear the trembling of the still, fluttering heart.
Primeres paraules
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My father would never describe himself as a poet.
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Darreres paraules
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I have no idea when I will run out of time, but each breath I breathe, each song I hear, gives my heart something to sing about—silent, silent songs to enter into the world.
"From the author of The Latehomecomer, a powerful memoir of her father, a Hmong song poet who sacrificed his gift for his children's future in America. In the Hmong tradition, the song poet recounts the story of his people, their history and tragedies, joys and losses; extemporizing or drawing on folk tales, he keeps the past alive, invokes the spirits and the homeland, and records courtships, births, weddings, and wishes. Following her award-winning book The Latehomecomer, Kao Kalia Yang now retells the life of her father Bee Yang, the song poet, a Hmong refugee in Minnesota, driven from the mountains of Laos by American's Secret War. Bee lost his father as a young boy and keenly felt his orphanhood. He would wander from one neighbor to the next, collecting the things they said to each other, whispering the words to himself at night until, one day, a song was born. Bee sings the life of his people through the war-torn jungle and a Thai refugee camp. But the songs fall away in the cold, bitter world of a Minneapolis housing project and on the factory floor until, with the death of Bee's mother, the songs leave him for good. But before they do, Bee, with his poetry, has polished a life of poverty for his children, burnished their grim reality so that they might shine. Written with the exquisite beauty for which Kao Kalia Yang is renowned, The Song Poet is a love story--of a daughter for her father, a father for his children, a people for their land, their traditions, and all that they have lost"--
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While there was a sense of repetition in this story when compared with The Latehomecomer, Yang's prose and writing style are gorgeous and a delight to read, and she handles the frequently heavy content with honesty and grace. While reading I felt as though I've been warmly welcomed into the Yang home, and now that it has been seven years since this book was written I can't help but wonder how everyone is doing, especially Xue. (