We Play a Game by Duy Doan
Duy Doan's striking debut reveals the wide resonance of the collection's unassuming title, in poems that explore--now with abundant humor, now with a deeply felt reserve--the ambiguities and tensions that mark our effort to know our histories, our loved ones, and ourselves. These are poems that draw from Doan's experience as a Vietnamese-American while at the same time making a case for--and masterfully playing with--the fluidity of identity, history, and language. Nothing is alien to these poems: the Saigon of a mother's dirge, the footballer Zinedine Zidane, an owl that talks to his other self in the well--all have a place in Doan's far-reaching and intimately human art.
“These are intimate, mischievous poems, alternately wry, forthright, vulnerable, winking, and sincere”—Nina MacLaughlin, The Boston Globe
Winner of the 2019 Lamda Literary Awards, Bisexual Poetry category
Winner of the 2019 Lamda Literary Awards, Bisexual Poetry category
Duy Doan is a Kundiman Fellow whose poetry has appeared in Poetry, Slate, TriQuarterly, and elsewhere. He received an MFA in Poetry from Boston University. Carl Phillips is the award-winning author of numerous books of poetry. In 2023 he received the Pulitzer Prize for Then the War: And Selected Poems, 2007–2020. He teaches at Washington University in St. Louis.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780300230871 |
| ISBN 10 | 0300230877 |
| Title | We Play a Game |
| Author | Duy Doan |
| Series | Yale Series Of Younger Poets |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Yale University Press |
| Year published | 2018-05-29 |
| Number of pages | 104 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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