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Genghis Chan on Drums, Paperback / softback Book

Genghis Chan on Drums Paperback / softback

Paperback / softback

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A diverse and cacophonous poetry collection tackling subjects from identity to current events.   At once comic and cantankerous, tender and discomfiting, piercing and irreverent, Genghis Chan on Drums is a shape-shifting book of percussive poems dealing with aging, identity, PC culture, and stereotypes about being Chinese.

Employing various forms, John Yau’s poems traverse a range of subjects, including the 1930s Hollywood actress Carole Lombard, the Latin poet Catullus, the fantastical Renaissance painter Piero di Cosimo’s imaginary sister, and a nameless gumshoe.

Yau moves effortlessly from using the rhyme scheme of a sixteenth-century Edmund Spenser sonnet to riffing on a well-known poem-rant by the English poet Sean Bonney, and to immersing himself in the words of condolence sent by a former president to the survivors of a school massacre.

Yau’s poems are conduits through which many different, conflicting, and unsavory voices strive to be heard.  

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