Ebook {Epub PDF} Reenactments: Poems and Translations by Hai-Dang Phan

The brilliance of his first book Reenactments: Poems and Translations lies in a deft interrogation of mimesis and, in particular, how representing the history of war and migration for Vietnamese Americans can reify silences, erasures, and cultural dislocations. But Phan also builds a powerful stay against despair through translations that spotlight contemporary Vietnamese poetry while slyly suggesting /5(4).  · In , 2-year-old Hai-Dang Phan and his family arrived in America as political refugees fleeing from the aftermath of the war in Vietnam. In his debut poetry collection, Reenactments: Poems and Translations, Phan, the son of Vietnamese refugees, confronts his inheritance of Vietnam War history as a generation Vietnamese American. Phan’s collection centers on the concept of Estimated Reading Time: 8 mins. Reenactments book. Read 6 reviews from the world's largest community for readers. In Reenactments, poet Hai-Dang Phan explores the history, memory, and l /5.

In Reenactments, Hai-Dang Phan grapples with the history, memory, and legacy of the Vietnam War from his vantage point as the son of Vietnamese refugees. Through a kaleidoscope of poetic forms, the past and present, the remembered and imagined, all intersect at shifting angles providing. Hai-Dang Phan is the author of Reenactments: Poems and Translations (Sarabande Books, ). He teaches at Grinnell College and lives in Iowa City, Iowa. poems. texts by. The speaker of Hai-Dang Phan's debut book of poems, Reenactments, rarely grieves. Nor does he assume the role of the bereaved, though there is much to grieve for. The Vietnam War. The exodus of the late '70s and '80s. The knowledge that is lost between child and parent. In these nimble, cerebral poems, the speaker observes and makes way.

The speaker of Hai-Dang Phan’s debut book of poems, Reenactments, rarely grieves. Nor does he assume the role of the bereaved, though there is much to grieve for. The Vietnam War. The exodus of the late ’70s and ’80s. The knowledge that is lost between child and parent. In these nimble, cerebral poems, the speaker observes and makes way for other voices to tell their stories. In Reenactments, Hai-Dang Phan grapples with the history, memory, and legacy of the Vietnam War from his vantage point as the son of Vietnamese refugees. Through a kaleidoscope of poetic forms, the past and present, the remembered and imagined, all intersect at shifting angles providing. Reenactments book. Read 6 reviews from the world's largest community for readers. In Reenactments, poet Hai-Dang Phan explores the history, memory, and l.