The Song Poet: A Memoir of My Father voices one of the most important

one of the most important figures in Lakota and American history

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

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The Song Poet: A Memoir of My Father voices one of the most importantIn 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.