placing the accents
by Truong Tran
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Poetry. In placing the accents, Truong Tran makes a poetry at once gestural and minimal, sparse and rich, of my father's broken english and my vietnamese tongue/discarded resewn. As much as this book is concerned with the powers and failures of language, with the complications of negotiating a cultural netherworld born somewhere between rural Vietnam and urban America, it is also the ancient story of lost innocence and childhood, of a boy and his father, each struggling to find a true home, a true family, a true nation —Gillian Conoley. Truong Tran's wonderful book — his poems are very much of-a-piece — is brilliant, disarmingly honest, and deeply insightful. He has performed the marvelous: he has given us a world —Sam Hamill.
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Poetry, American poetry, Asian american authors, LGBTQ authorsPlaces
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| August 5, 2017 | Edited by Yolanda | fix typo in place name |
| August 5, 2017 | Edited by Yolanda | added place |
| August 5, 2017 | Edited by Yolanda | added description & tags |
| April 28, 2010 | Edited by Open Library Bot | Linked existing covers to the work. |
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