{"product_id":"36-ways-of-writing-a-vietnamese-poem","title":"36 Ways of Writing a Vietnamese Poem","description":"An explosive, devastating debut book of poetry from the acclaimed author of The Boat\n\nIn his first international release since the award-winning, best-selling The Boat, 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.\n\nIn 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.\n\nBut 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.\n\nMaking 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\u003eASIN: 0593537203\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: DBV.0593537203.G\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Good\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:Le, Nam\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Notes\u003c\/b\u003e: Gently used with minimal wear on the corners and cover. A few pages may contain light highlighting or writing, but the text remains fully legible. Dust jacket may be missing, and supplemental materials like CDs or codes may not be included. May be ex-library with library markings. Ships promptly!  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Dream Books Co.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41446701465658,"sku":"DBV.0593537203.G","price":7.96,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/6011\/0138\/files\/0593537203-0.jpg?v=1780704592","url":"https:\/\/shop.dreambooksco.com\/products\/36-ways-of-writing-a-vietnamese-poem","provider":"Dream Books Co.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}