Mai Der Vang

About the Author

Mai Der Vang is an editorial member of the Hmong American Writers' Circle. Her poetry has appeared in the New Republic, Poetry, and the Virginia Quarterly Review, and her essays have been published in the New York Times, San Francisco Chronicle, and the Washington Post. She lives in California.

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Popular Recente

Afterland: Poems (2017) 69 cópias

Yellow Rain: Poems (2021) 26 cópias

How Do I Begin? A Hmong American Literary Anthology (Hmong American Writers' Circle) (2011) — Editor; Contribuinte — 13 cópias

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Associated Works

Fairy Tale Review: The Mauve Issue (2015) — Contribuinte — 7 cópias

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Conhecimento Comum

Nome padrão: Vang, Mai Der
Data de nascimento: 1981-10-20
Sexo: female
Nacionalidade: USA
Local de nascimento: Fresno, California, USA
Educação: Columbia University (MFA - Creative Writing/Poetry)
University of California, Berkeley (BA - English)
Ocupação: dichter
Organizações: Clovis Community College

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Resenhas

Afterland : poems de Mai Der Vang

Afterland is a collection I enjoyed for the way the poet pushes imagery into places that sparked my own imagination. It's also a privilege to be able to get a weighty window into Hmong culture and perspectives.

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b.masonjudy | 1 outra resenha | Apr 3, 2020 |

Afterland: Poems de Mai Der Vang

Mai der Vang's "Afterland" manages to make surrealistic and visionary poetry accessible. She writes from biography and family history but speaks the universal. Images collide and morph into each other and language and syntax warp away and back into common tongue. I particularly liked:

- Another Heaven
- Original Bones
- After All Have Gone
- Gray Vestige
- This Heft upon YOur Leaving
- Three

Sometimes a poem stretches too far and fails from the surrealism and the warped syntax. But the collection as a whole is a fine one.… (mais)

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dasam | 1 outra resenha | Jun 20, 2018 |