Book of the Other: small in comparison by Truong Tran

Book of the Other: small in comparison by Truong Tran

A furious, multiform examination of the devastation wrought by anti-Asian racism in America Truong Tran’s provocative collection of poetry, prose and essays is a stunning rebuttal to the idea of anti-Asian racism as a victimless crime. Written with a compulsion for lucidity that transforms outrage into clarity, Book of the Other resists the luxury of metaphor to write about the experience of being shut out, shut down and othered as a queer, working-class teacher, immigrant and refugee. What emerges from Tran’s sharp-eyed experiments in language and form is an achingly beautiful acknowledgment of the estrangement from self forced upon those seduced by the promise of color-blind acceptance and the rigorous, step by step act of recollection needed to find one's way home to oneself. Truong Tran was born in Saigon, Vietnam, in 1969. He is the author of six previous collections of poetry, The Book of Perceptions, Placing the Accents, Dust and Conscience, Within the Margins, Four Letter Words and 100 words (coauthored with Damon Potter). He also authored the children’s book Going Home Coming Home, and an artist monograph, I Meant to Say Please Pass the Sugar. He is the recipient of the Poetry Center Prize, the Fund for Poetry Grant, the California Arts Council Grant and numerous San Francisco Arts Commission Grants. Tran lives in San Francisco where he teaches art and poetry.

And though he relishes in the pleasure of inventing his own language, by no means does he want to hold the exclusive rights to itHe welcomes others to consider how they are interpreting the language. How we would write our own language. To tell our own stories. He invites others into his house. -- Kirby Chen Mages * Poetry Project Newsletter *

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Truong Tran was born in Vietnam. In 1975 he immigrated with his family to the San Francisco Bay Area. Truong has received several poetry fellowships, and his poems have been published in literary journals such as ZZYZZYVA, The American Voice, and Poetry East. The author of three critically acclaimed books of poetry, Truong currently lives in San Francisco.

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ISBN 13	9781885030757
ISBN 10	1885030754
Title	Book of the Other: small in comparison
Author	Truong Tran
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Kaya Press
Year published	2021-12-23
Number of pages	184
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