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Bao Phi

~ Vietnamese American spoken word artist, writer and community activist

Bao Phi

Books

Song I Sing

2011

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David Mura, Douglas Kearney, Jeff Chang, Li-Young Lee, Sông I Sing, Yen Le Espiritu

Sông I Sing

Cover art by Binh Danh

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→ Designed, published and available for purchase via Coffee House Press.

A rhapsodic exploration of immigration, race, and class by Vietnamese American phenom and National Poetry Slam star Bao Phi.

Dynamic and eye-opening, this debut by a National Poetry Slam finalist critiques an America sleepwalking through its days and explores the contradictions of race and class in America.

Excerpt

From “Prince Among Men”

When it feels like no one
lets you live
at your own volume
You sing.

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Last Name First

2005

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Chamindika Wanduragala, chapbook, Douglas Kearney

Last Name First (chapbook cover)

Cover art by Chamindika Wanduragala

Poems by Thien-Bao Phi
chapbook designed by Douglas Kearney
with artwork by Chamindika Wanduragala

The Way We Pay

2004

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chapbook, David Huang, Douglas Kearney, Sylvia Quan La, Wing Young Huie

The Way We Pay (chapbook cover)

Cover art by Sylvia Quan La

Poetry by Thien-Bao Phi
limited edition of 50
chapbook designed by Douglas Kearney
with artwork by Sylvia Quan La

Includes:

  1. FOBulous
  2. Giving My Neighbor a Ride to Her Job
  3. Race
  4. Musings on How I Regard Asian American Literature
  5. Riot
  6. Bread and Glass
  7. Miss Saigon
  8. Every Day People
  9. No Offense
  10. Mass Transit
  11. For Colored Boys in Danger of Sudden Unexplained Nocturnal Death Syndrome and All the Rest For Whom Considering Suicide is Not Enuf
  12. Goodbye
  13. Worth Singing

Surviving the Translation (chapbook)

2002

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chapbook, Douglas Kearney, Phloe

Surviving the Translation (chapbook)

Cover art by Phloe

Collected Poems from 1993 – 2002
chapbook designed by Douglas Kearney
with artwork by Phloe

Includes:

  1. Space
  2. Dear Senator McCain
  3. Poetry Never Leads to Love
  4. Surviving the Translation
  5. Light
  6. Bright Lady
  7. Reverse Racist
  8. Called
  9. Missed Sigh Gone
  10. What’s an Asian Man?
  11. You Bring Out the Vietnamese in Me
  12. Dandelions
  13. Birthday
  14. Yellowbrown Babies for the Revolution
  15. For Us

BAO PHI

Vietnamese American spoken word artist,
writer and community activist

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