{"product_id":"36-ways-of-writing-a-nam-le-9780593537206","title":"36 Ways of Writing a Vietnamese Poem","description":"\u003cb\u003eAn explosive, devastating debut book of poetry from the acclaimed author of \u003ci\u003eThe Boat\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn his first international release since the award-winning, best-selling \u003ci\u003eThe Boat, \u003c\/i\u003e Nam Le delivers a shot across the bow with a book-length poem that honors every convention of diasporic literature--in a virtuosic array of forms and registers--before shattering the form itself. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn line with the works of Claudia Rankine, Cathy Park Hong, and Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, this book 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBut 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMaking use of multiple tones, moods, masks, and camouflages, Le's poetic debut moves with unpredictable and destabilizing energy between the personal and the political. As self-indicting as it is scathing, hilarious as it is desperately moving, this is a singular, breakthrough book.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Nam Le\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0593537203\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780593537206\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Knopf Publishing Group\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/05\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 80\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.44lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.35h x 5.43w x 0.63d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 12\/18\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/15\/2024 pg. 17\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eShelf Awareness\u003c\/i\u003e 03\/08\/2024","brand":"Nam Le","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44169732391167,"sku":"9780593537206","price":28.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_14bdf0c9-63a0-4690-8fda-818a2ffe1124.jpg?v=1689654600","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/36-ways-of-writing-a-nam-le-9780593537206","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}