The song poet : a memoir of my father
(CD Audiobook)
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Contributors
Published
Minneapolis, Minn. : Highbridge Audio, ℗2016.
Edition
Unabridged.
ISBN
9781681681627, 1681681625
Physical Desc
7 audio discs (8 hr., 5 min.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
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Location | Call Number | Status |
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Wausau - MCPL - Adult Hmong | 305.89597 YAN CD | Available |
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Subjects
LC Subjects
Audiobooks.
Biography.
Fathers and daughters -- Minnesota.
Hmong (Asian people) -- Laos -- Biography.
Hmong (Asian people) -- Social life and customs.
Hmong Americans -- Minnesota -- Biography.
Hmong poetry -- Minnesota.
Refugees -- Minnesota -- Biography.
Singers -- Minnesota -- Biography.
Songs, Hmong -- Minnesota.
Yang, Bee, -- 1958-
Biography.
Fathers and daughters -- Minnesota.
Hmong (Asian people) -- Laos -- Biography.
Hmong (Asian people) -- Social life and customs.
Hmong Americans -- Minnesota -- Biography.
Hmong poetry -- Minnesota.
Refugees -- Minnesota -- Biography.
Singers -- Minnesota -- Biography.
Songs, Hmong -- Minnesota.
Yang, Bee, -- 1958-
More Details
Published
Minneapolis, Minn. : Highbridge Audio, ℗2016.
Format
CD Audiobook
Edition
Unabridged.
Language
English
ISBN
9781681681627, 1681681625
Notes
Participants/Performers
Narrated by Kao Kalia Yang.
Description
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.
Citations
APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Yang, K. K., & Yang, K. K. (2016). The song poet: a memoir of my father (Unabridged.). Highbridge Audio.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Yang, Kao Kalia and Kao Kalia, Yang. 2016. The Song Poet: A Memoir of My Father. Highbridge Audio.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Yang, Kao Kalia and Kao Kalia, Yang. The Song Poet: A Memoir of My Father Highbridge Audio, 2016.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Yang, Kao Kalia., and Kao Kalia Yang. The Song Poet: A Memoir of My Father Unabridged., Highbridge Audio, 2016.
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