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008			151214t20162016nyu 000 0beng
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020			_a9781627794947 _q(hardback)
020			_a1627794948 _q(hardback)
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092			_aYang, B. _bY22
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100	1		_aYang, Kao Kalia, _d1980- _eauthor. _9304472
245	1	4	_aThe song poet : _ba memoir of my father / _cKao Kalia Yang.
250			_aFirst Edition
264		1	_aNew York : _bMetropolitan Books, Henry Holt and Company, _c2016.
264		4	_c©2016
300			_axi, 271 pages ; _c22 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
505	0		_aAlbum 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.
520	2		_a"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"-- _cProvided by publisher.
600	1	0	_aYang, Bee, _d1958- _9304473
600	1	0	_aYang, Kao Kalia, _d1980- _xFamily. _9304474
650		0	_aHmong Americans _zMinnesota _vBiography. _9304475
650		0	_aSingers _zMinnesota _vBiography. _9304476
650		0	_aHmong poetry _zMinnesota. _9304477
650		0	_aSongs, Hmong _zMinnesota. _9304478
650		0	_aRefugees _zMinnesota _vBiography. _9304479
650		0	_aFathers and daughters _zMinnesota. _9249888
650		0	_aHmong (Asian people) _xSocial life and customs. _9304480
650		0	_aHmong (Asian people) _zLaos _vBiography. _9304481
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