The Song Poet : A Memoir of My Father (Hardcover)

from St.CroixSue

This is a beautifully written biography of Kao Kalia Yang's father who was driven from the mountains of Laos to become a refugee and immigrant in Minnesota. A remarkable work that has the ability to transport you into the lives and hearts of a close immigrant Hmong family in Minnesota. It also fi...

from mcdenis

Words have a magic quality to call forth memories, hidden emotions, express anger or harmonize to poetic cadence. The Song Poet is such a book. Written with tender regard, the memories stir one's emotions and remind us that our family journey, ordinary to us can be meaningful to others when we sh...

from bayleaf

The Song Poet: A Memoir of My Father is one of the most beautiful and insightful books I have read in a long time. At its heart author Kao Kalia Yang has written a loving tribute to her father Bee Yang. Bee is a song poet, a man who with his family escaped war-torn Laos, survived a refugee camp i...

from RealLifeReading

I have so much love for this book that I don't know how to write about it. Will you just bypass it because, it's a book that you haven't heard of? Or maybe you don't read memoirs? Or non-fiction? Why am I being so negative? Maybe instead you are excited because it is a book you've not heard much ...

from streamsong

Hmong song poets tell the stories of their lives, their people and their countries in song. This is a love letter from the author telling of her father, Bee Yang's, life. Bee was a farmer in a small Hmong village in Laos. Unfortunately the Hmong were seldom left undisturbed. When the communists m...