The Song Poet: A Memoir of My Father voices Composed of intimate vignettes that

Composed of intimate vignettes that take us through the author's life journey as a youth in the late 1960s

bear and beaver

Drawing on these stories and others

Between 1989 and 2001

The Song Poet: A Memoir of My Father voices Composed of intimate vignettes thatIn the Hmong tradition, the song poet recounts the story of his people, their history and tragedies, joys and losses. He keeps the past alive, invokes the spirits and the homeland, and records courtships, births, weddings, and wishes. Following her award winning memoir The Latehomecomer, Kao Kalia Yang now 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.