We Play a Game: Volume 112

By Duy Doan

Book Overview

The 112th volume of the Yale Series of Younger Poets explores the Vietnamese-American experience

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300230877
• ISBN13: 9780300230871
• Release Date: March 2018
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 104 Pages
• Weight: 0.38 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.5" x 8.2"