Drowning Dragon Slips by Burning Plains : Poems
by
Khai Don
Book Details
Format
Hardback or Cased Book
Book Series
Diasporic Vietnamese Artists Network Series
ISBN-10
1682831930
ISBN-13
9781682831939
Publisher
Texas A & M University Press
Imprint
Texas A & M University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Oct 10th, 2023
Print length
128 Pages
Weight
332 grams
Dimensions
16.00 x 23.60 x 1.70 cms
Product Classification:
PoetryPoetry / Poems
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Explores the meaning of being a woman in a land robbed of its innocence. Through a collage-like approach of personal history and fables, these poems present an insidious flow of recollections that young people do not want to remember and that old people avoid discussing.
Drowning Dragon Slips by Burning Plains counters the narrative held in the West about women and the land of the quaintly "lush" and "charming" Mekong Delta. A rice field in the middle of the communist and American-backed government, the delta was an essential resource that fed both sides of the war in Vietnam. The Mekong Delta went through countless massacres on an immense scale. Yet, history wiped the injuries away as if the river forgot. In her debut collection, Khải Đơn explores the meaning of being a woman in a land robbed of its innocence. Through a collage-like approach of personal history and fables, Khải Đơn's poems present an insidious flow of recollections that young people do not want to remember and that old people avoid discussing.
In poems that lament and wonder, Khải Đơn reclaims the narrative for her people by unexpected material yielded from social research, CIA documents, and American military evaluations to erode the dominant narrative about the Delta in and after the war. Her poems tell tales of the old bombs turning into mangoes, rice germinating out of bullet holes, and every woman losing her way home.
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