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Kao Kalia Yang

The Song Poet: A Memoir of My Father

Kao Kalia YangNonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2016

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Essay Topics

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Kalia structures The Song Poet as a musical album. How does this influence the reader’s understanding of the memoir?

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Kalia does not begin describing her father as a poet until she is a grown woman. What does it mean to be a poet or an artist? 

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Bee lives out many roles in the memoir: son, husband, father, machinist, poet. Which of these roles best defines him?

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