The Resource The song poet : a memoir of my father, Kao Kalia Yang
The song poet : a memoir of my father, Kao Kalia Yang
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The item The song poet : a memoir of my father, Kao Kalia Yang represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in DC Public Library System.
This item is available to borrow from 2 library branches.
- Summary
- "From the author of The Latehomecomer, a powerful memoir of her father, a Hmong song poet who sacrificed his gift for his children's future in America. In the Hmong tradition, the song poet recounts the story of his people, their history and tragedies, joys and losses; extemporizing or drawing on folk tales, he keeps the past alive, invokes the spirits and the homeland, and records courtships, births, weddings, and wishes. Following her award-winning book The Latehomecomer, Kao Kalia Yang now retells the life of her father Bee Yang, the song poet, a Hmong refugee in Minnesota, driven from the mountains of Laos by American's Secret War. Bee lost his father as a young boy and keenly felt his orphanhood. He would wander from one neighbor to the next, collecting the things they said to each other, whispering the words to himself at night until, one day, a song was born. Bee sings the life of his people through the war-torn jungle and a Thai refugee camp. But the songs fall away in the cold, bitter world of a Minneapolis housing project and on the factory floor until, with the death of Bee's mother, the songs leave him for good. But before they do, Bee, with his poetry, has polished a life of poverty for his children, burnished their grim reality so that they might shine. Written with the exquisite beauty for which Kao Kalia Yang is renowned, The Song Poet is a love story--of a daughter for her father, a father for his children, a people for their land, their traditions, and all that they have lost"--
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- First Edition
- Extent
- xi, 271 pages
- Contents
-
- Album notes
- Side A: Birth of a song poet
- Bee Yang
- Track 1: Birth of a song poet
- Track 2: A fatherless boyhood
- Track 3: Brothers and sisters
- Track 4: Love song
- Track 5: Cry of machines
- Side B: Song for my children: Kao Kalia Yang
- Track 6: Doctors and lawyers
- Track 7: The son must rise
- Track 8: Song of separation
- Track 9: Dreams and nightmares
- Track 10: Return to Laos (Duet)
- Album notes
- Isbn
- 9781627794947
- Label
- The song poet : a memoir of my father
- Title
- The song poet
- Title remainder
- a memoir of my father
- Statement of responsibility
- Kao Kalia Yang
- Subject
-
- Hmong (Asian people) -- Laos -- Biography
- Hmong (Asian people) -- Social life and customs
- Hmong Americans -- Minnesota -- Biography
- Hmong poetry -- Minnesota
- Refugees -- Minnesota -- Biography
- Biographies
- Songs, Hmong -- Minnesota
- Yang, Bee, 1958-
- Yang, Kao Kalia, 1980- -- Family
- Singers -- Minnesota -- Biography
- Fathers and daughters -- Minnesota
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "From the author of The Latehomecomer, a powerful memoir of her father, a Hmong song poet who sacrificed his gift for his children's future in America. In the Hmong tradition, the song poet recounts the story of his people, their history and tragedies, joys and losses; extemporizing or drawing on folk tales, he keeps the past alive, invokes the spirits and the homeland, and records courtships, births, weddings, and wishes. Following her award-winning book The Latehomecomer, Kao Kalia Yang now retells the life of her father Bee Yang, the song poet, a Hmong refugee in Minnesota, driven from the mountains of Laos by American's Secret War. Bee lost his father as a young boy and keenly felt his orphanhood. He would wander from one neighbor to the next, collecting the things they said to each other, whispering the words to himself at night until, one day, a song was born. Bee sings the life of his people through the war-torn jungle and a Thai refugee camp. But the songs fall away in the cold, bitter world of a Minneapolis housing project and on the factory floor until, with the death of Bee's mother, the songs leave him for good. But before they do, Bee, with his poetry, has polished a life of poverty for his children, burnished their grim reality so that they might shine. Written with the exquisite beauty for which Kao Kalia Yang is renowned, The Song Poet is a love story--of a daughter for her father, a father for his children, a people for their land, their traditions, and all that they have lost"--
- Assigning source
- Provided by publisher
- Biography type
- individual biography
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1980-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Yang, Kao Kalia
- Dewey number
- 305.8959/72073
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- F615.H55
- LC item number
- Y36 2016
- Literary form
- non fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Yang, Bee
- Yang, Kao Kalia
- Hmong Americans
- Singers
- Hmong poetry
- Songs, Hmong
- Refugees
- Fathers and daughters
- Hmong (Asian people)
- Hmong (Asian people)
- Label
- The song poet : a memoir of my father, Kao Kalia Yang
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Album notes -- Side A: Birth of a song poet -- Bee Yang -- Track 1: Birth of a song poet -- Track 2: A fatherless boyhood -- Track 3: Brothers and sisters -- Track 4: Love song -- Track 5: Cry of machines -- Side B: Song for my children: Kao Kalia Yang -- Track 6: Doctors and lawyers -- Track 7: The son must rise -- Track 8: Song of separation -- Track 9: Dreams and nightmares -- Track 10: Return to Laos (Duet) -- Album notes
- Control code
- ocn922458101
- Dimensions
- 22 cm
- Edition
- First Edition
- Extent
- xi, 271 pages
- Isbn
- 9781627794947
- Lccn
- 2015032156
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Label
- The song poet : a memoir of my father, Kao Kalia Yang
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Album notes -- Side A: Birth of a song poet -- Bee Yang -- Track 1: Birth of a song poet -- Track 2: A fatherless boyhood -- Track 3: Brothers and sisters -- Track 4: Love song -- Track 5: Cry of machines -- Side B: Song for my children: Kao Kalia Yang -- Track 6: Doctors and lawyers -- Track 7: The son must rise -- Track 8: Song of separation -- Track 9: Dreams and nightmares -- Track 10: Return to Laos (Duet) -- Album notes
- Control code
- ocn922458101
- Dimensions
- 22 cm
- Edition
- First Edition
- Extent
- xi, 271 pages
- Isbn
- 9781627794947
- Lccn
- 2015032156
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
Subject
- Hmong (Asian people) -- Laos -- Biography
- Hmong (Asian people) -- Social life and customs
- Hmong Americans -- Minnesota -- Biography
- Hmong poetry -- Minnesota
- Refugees -- Minnesota -- Biography
- Biographies
- Songs, Hmong -- Minnesota
- Yang, Bee, 1958-
- Yang, Kao Kalia, 1980- -- Family
- Singers -- Minnesota -- Biography
- Fathers and daughters -- Minnesota
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