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buried underneath the crushing weight of cultural and personal history
and a touch of irreverence
In Ride the Wave
Prepare to dig a way through this seemingly random heap of shuffled pages and make this anthology the book you want it to be
Songbirds of the Nine Rivers Book cover type:Paperback buried underneath the crushing weightFinalist for the 2024 California Book Award in Poetry. Part historical, part geographical, part philosophical lyric poems inspired by Vietnam's Mekong Delta and poems of the Tang and L dynasties. In his afterword to Songbirds of the Nine Rivers, Joseph Zaccardi recounts how, during his time as a Navy corpsman in the Vietnam War, he found refuge in a volume of ancient Chinese and Vietnamese poetry. His study, now lifelong, has borne fruit in this