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04390aam a2200685 i 4500 001 DADD5E54214711EEBC7340321FECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20230713010558 008 171031t20172016nyu 000 0beng d 020 $a 125013188X 020 $a 9781250131881 035 $a (OCoLC)1008733401 040 $a MNX $b eng $e rda $c MNX $d MNX $d YDX $d BDX $d OCLCF $d OCLCA $d NOW $d OCL $d OCLCA $d OCLCQ $d OCLCO $d ZR1 $d OCLCO $d OCLCQ $d OCLCO $d SILO 043 $a a-ls--- $a a-ls--- 050 4 $a F615.H55 $b Y36 2017 082 04 $a 305.8959/72073 $2 23 100 1 $a Yang, Kao Kalia, $d 1980- $e author. 245 14 $a The song poet : $b a memoir of my father / $c Kao Kalia Yang. 250 $a First Picador edition. 264 1 $a New York : $b Picador, $c 2017. 300 $a xiii, 271 pages ; $c 21 cm 505 0 $a Album notes -- SIDE A: BIRTH OF A SONG POET- BEE YANG -- Track 1: Birth of a song poet -- Track 2: A fatherless boyhood -- Track 3: Brothers and sisters -- Track 4: Love song -- Track 5: Cry of machines -- SIDE B: SONG FOR MY CHILDREN- KAO KALIA YANG -- Track 6: Doctors and lawyers -- Track 7: The son must rise -- Track 8: Song of separation -- Track 9: Dreams and nightmares -- Track 10: Return to Laos (duet) -- Album notes -- Acknowledgements. 520 $a 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. Kao Kalia Yang retells the life of her father Bee Yang, the song poet, a Hmong refugee in Minnesota, driven from the mountains of Laos by America'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. 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. 600 10 $a Yang, Bee, $d 1958- 600 10 $a Yang, Kao Kalia, $d 1980- $x Family. 600 17 $a Yang, Bee, $d 1958- $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01941920 600 17 $a Yang, Kao Kalia, $d 1980- $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01689820 650 0 $a Hmong Americans $z Minnesota $v Biography. 650 0 $a Singers $z Minnesota $v Biography. 650 0 $a Hmong poetry $z Minnesota. 650 0 $a Songs, Hmong $z Minnesota. 650 0 $a Refugees $z Minnesota $v Biography. 650 0 $a Fathers and daughters $z Minnesota. 650 0 $a Hmong (Asian people) $x Social life and customs. 650 0 $a Hmong (Asian people) $z Laos $v Biography. 650 6 $a AmeÌricains d'origine miao $z Minnesota $v Biographies. 650 6 $a Chanteurs $z Minnesota $v Biographies. 650 6 $a ReÌfugieÌs $z Minnesota $v Biographies. 650 6 $a PeÌres et filles $z Minnesota. 650 6 $a Miao (Peuple d'Asie) $x MÅurs et coutumes. 650 6 $a Miao (Peuple d'Asie) $z Laos $v Biographies. 650 7 $a Families. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01728849 650 7 $a Fathers and daughters. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00921890 650 7 $a Hmong Americans. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00958463 650 7 $a Hmong (Asian people) $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00958436 650 7 $a Hmong (Asian people) $x Social life and customs. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00958455 650 7 $a Hmong poetry. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00958493 650 7 $a Refugees. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01092797 650 7 $a Singers. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01119301 650 7 $a Songs, Hmong. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01126368 651 7 $a Laos. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01210322 651 7 $a Minnesota. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01204560 655 2 $a Biography 655 7 $a Biographies. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01919896 655 7 $a Biographies. $2 lcgft 655 7 $a Biographies. $2 rvmgf 941 $a 1 952 $l PLAX964 $d 20240724074100.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=DADD5E54214711EEBC7340321FECA4DB 994 $a 92 $b IOHInitiate Another SILO Locator Search