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We Play a Game by Duy Doan

We Play a Game by Duy Doan

We Play a Game by Duy Doan

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Duy Doans striking debut reveals the wide resonance of the collections unassuming title, in poems that explorenow with abundant humor, now with a deeply felt reservethe ambiguities and tensions that mark our effort to know our histories, our loved ones, and ourselves. These are poems that draw from Doans experience as a Vietnamese-American while at the same time making a case forand masterfully playing withthe fluidity of identity, history, and language. Nothing is alien to these poems: the Saigon of a mothers dirge, the footballer Zinedine Zidane, an owl that talks to his other self in the wellall have a place in Doans far-reaching and intimately human art.

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 twelve books of poetry. His most recent work is the poetry collection Reconnaissance. This is his seventh year as judge of the Yale Series of Younger Poets.

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