36 Ways of Writing a Vietnamese Poem av Nam Le

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<p><i>36 Ways of Writing a Vietnamese Poem </i>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.<br><br> But 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.<br><br> Making use of multiple tones, moods, masks and camouflages, Le''s poetic debut moves with unpredictable and destabilizing energy between the personal and political. As self-indicting as it is scathing, hilarious as it is desperately moving, this is a singular, breakthrough book.</p>