36 Ways of Writing a Vietnamese Poem, Hardback Book

36 Ways of Writing a Vietnamese Poem Hardback

Hardback

In Stock - More than 10 copies availableFree UK DeliveryEstimated delivery 2-3 working days
  • Information

Description

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.

Information

Other Formats

Save 19%

£12.99

£10.49

In Stock - More than 10 copies availableFree UK DeliveryEstimated delivery 2-3 working days
Add to Basket
Sign in to add to wishlist

Information