We Play a Game: Volume 112 (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780300230871)

The 112th volume of the Yale Series of Younger Poets explores the Vietnamese-American experience

Duy Doan's striking debut reveals the wide resonance of the collection's unassuming title, in poems that explore--now with abundant humor, now with a deeply felt reserve--the ambiguities and tensions that mark our effort to know our histories, our loved ones, and ourselves. These are poems that draw from Doan's experience as a Vietnamese-American while at the same time making a case for--and masterfully playing with--the fluidity of identity, history, and language. Nothing is alien to these poems: the Saigon of a mother's dirge, the footballer Zinedine Zidane, an owl that "talks to his other self in the well"--all have a place in Doan's far-reaching and intimately human art.

Author: Duy Doan
ISBN-10: 0300230877
ISBN-13: 9780300230871
Publisher: Yale University Press
Language: English
Published: 03/20/2018
Pages: 104
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.30lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.50w x 0.30d

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 02/19/2018
Library Journal 05/15/2018 pg. 62