36 Ways of Writing a Vietnamese Poem (eBook)

Nam Le (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2024
80 Seiten
Canongate Books (Verlag)
978-1-80530-077-9 (ISBN)

Infos

An explosive, devastating debut poetry book from the winner of the Dylan Thomas Prize36 Ways of Writing a Vietnamese Poem is an urgent, unsettling reckoning with identity – and the violence of identity. For Le, a Vietnamese refugee in the West, this means the assumed violence of racism, oppression and historical trauma.But it also means the violence of that assumption. Of being always assumed to be outside one’s 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, Le’s poetic debut moves with unpredictable and destabilizing energy between the personal and political. As self-indicting as it is scathing, hilarious as it is desperately moving, this is a singular, breakthrough book.

Autor

Nam Le's poetry has been published in Poetry, The American Poetry Review, The Paris Review, Bomb, Conjunctions, Boston Review, Lana Turner, Tin House and The Monthly. He has received major awards in America, Europe and Australia, including the PEN/Malamud Award, the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, the Dylan Thomas Prize, the Australian Prime Minister's Literary Award and the Melbourne Prize for Literature. His short story collection The Boat has been republished as a modern classic and is widely translated, anthologized and taught. He lives in Melbourne, Australia.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 7.3.2024
• Zusatzinfo: two in text b/w images
• Verlagsort: Edinburgh
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik ► Lyrik / Gedichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
• Schlagworte: ancestral violence • assimilation • Diasporic Literature • Ethnicity • generational trauma • Identity • language • Poetry • Race • racial violence • Religion • Translation • Vietnam • war
• ISBN-10: 1-80530-077-6 / 1805300776
• ISBN-13: 978-1-80530-077-9 / 9781805300779