Nam Le on his new book of poetry, '36 Ways of Writing a Vietnamese Poem'
Mar 08 2024
26 mins
36 Ways of Writing a Vietnamese Poem is a book-length poem that is an urgent, unsettling reckoning with identity and the violence of identity, embedded with racism, oppression and historical trauma. But it also addresses the violence in those assumptions – of being always assumed to be outside one’s home, country, culture or language. And the complex violence, for the diasporic