Fifteen years after his best-selling award-winning collection of stories The Boat Nam Le returns to his great themes of identity and representation in a virtuosic debut book of poetry 36 Ways of Writing a Vietnamese Poem says Le a Vietnamese refugee to Australia is the book I needed to write. The book I've been writing my whole lifeTM. This book-length poem is an urgent unsettling reckoning with identity and the violence of identity embedded with racism oppression and historical trauma. But it also addresses the violence ...
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Fifteen years after his best-selling award-winning collection of stories The Boat Nam Le returns to his great themes of identity and representation in a virtuosic debut book of poetry 36 Ways of Writing a Vietnamese Poem says Le a Vietnamese refugee to Australia is the book I needed to write. The book I've been writing my whole lifeTM. This book-length poem is an urgent unsettling reckoning with identity and the violence of identity embedded with racism oppression and historical trauma. But it also addresses the violence in those assumptions - of being always assumed to be outside oneTMs 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 LeTMs poetic debut moves with unpredictable and destabilising energy between the personal and political honouring every convention of diasporic literature - in a virtuosic array of forms and registers - before shattering the form itself. Like The Boat 36 Ways of Writing a Vietnamese Poem conjures its own terms of engagement escapes our traps slips our certainties. As self-indicting as it is scathing hilarious as it is desperately moving this is a singular breakthrough book. 'Nam Le takes the English language to pieces and reassembles it with a virtuoso ease not seen sinceA Finnegans Wake'A J.M. Coetzee A 'A masterly performance' David Malouf A 'These poems seethe and sing'A Cathy Park Hong
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