The Song Poet ─ A Memoir of My Father
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ISBN13:9781627794947
出版社:Metropolitan Books
作者:Kao Kalia Yang
出版日:2016/05/10
裝訂/頁數:精裝/304頁
規格:22.9cm*15.9cm*3.2cm (高/寬/厚)
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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. As his mother searched the village gathering herbal remedies and his older siblings worked the fields, he would wander from one neighbor to the next, collecting the things they said to each other. Alone and lonely, he whispered the words to himself at night until, one day, a song was born. Bee sings the life of his people from his Laos home, 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 songs, has polished a life of poverty for his children, burnished their grim reality so that they might shine, even as he is cut off from his tradition and breathes the air of dying generation.
Written with the exquisite beauty for which Kao Kalia Yang is renowned, The Song Poet is a tribute to the father and the poetry that sheltered the Yang family from the harshness of their lives. It is, above all, 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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