The Song Poet

In the Hmong tradition, the song poet recounts the story of his people. This book retells the life of Bee Yang, the song poet, a Hmong refugee in Minnesota driven from the mountains of Laos by America's Secret War. Bee sings the life of his people through the war-torn jungle and a Thai refugee

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camp. But the songs fall away in the cold, bitter world of a Minneapolis housing project and on the factory floor until, with the death of Bee's mother, the songs leave him for good. But before they do, Bee, with his poetry, has polished a life of poverty for his children, burnished their grim reality so that they might shine.

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