Research Catalog

Title

Thousand star hotel / Bao Phi.

Author

Phi, Bao, 1975-

Publication

Minneapolis : Coffee House Press, 2017.

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Holdings

Details

Additional Authors

Woodberry Poetry Room (Harvard College Library). Collections, repository. poe

Description

110 pages; 23 cm

Summary

"Thousand Star Hotel confronts the silence around racism, police brutality, and the invisibility of the Asian American urban poor. From "with thanks to Sahra Nguyen for the refugee style slogan": They give the kids candy to bet. My daughter loses the first four rounds, she's a quiet wire as they take her candy away, piece by piece. When she finally wins, I ask if she wants to play again. No! she shouts, grabbing her candy, I want to go home! True refugee style: take everything you got and run with it. Bao Phi is a National Poetry Slam finalist"--

Uniform Title

Poems. Selections

Alternative Title

Poems.

Subject

• National Public Radio (U.S.)
• 2000-2099
• POETRY / American / Asian American
• POETRY / Asian
• American poetry > Asian American authors > 21st century
• American poetry > Vietnamese American authors > 21st century
• Police brutality > United States > Poetry
• Racism > United States > Poetry
• Urban poor > United States > Poetry
• Father and child > Asian Americans > Poetry
• Asian Americans > Poetry
• American poetry > 21st century

Genre/Form

Poetry

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Say what? -- I. 5 Vocabulary -- 7 Cookies -- 8 Shell -- 9 Go to where the love is -- 11 Lead -- 14 The reveal -- 16 Kids -- 19 Want to want -- 21 When my daughter asks me to check and make sure racists can't come in and kill us -- 22 Our Minnesota -- 25 Peeking through the back door of the commodore -- 27 Refugees from the Prom Center, the eighties -- 28 The why -- 29 To combust -- 31 Knockoff -- 34 The measure -- 36 Poem for Ahmed Al-Jumaili -- 38 List of notable Asian American poets -- 39 467 / 500 -- 40 Frank's Nursery and Crafts -- 41 "Allies" who think they're the chosen ones -- 42 Are people of color as bad or who's bad or bad meaning good -- 43 Bad driver, or Asian American activists who talk about their own people like they are "other" -- 45 It was flame -- 46 Oriental flavor -- 47 Token exceptional Asian in liberal multiculturalism -- 48 At dinner -- 50 April 30, 2014 -- 52 Apple-red pathfinder -- 54 No question -- 56 Villain/elle: Shimomura cross over in the flat of the night -- 57 Rolling through a four-way -- 58 Bau Cua Ca cop. II. 61 Future letter to daughter apologizing for when I caved to her request and brought her to Barbie's dreamhouse at Mall of America -- 62 Broken things -- 65 Document -- 68 Lights -- 69 In the dark -- 70 Careful what you wish for -- 71 Tourist with daughter -- 72 Contour -- 74 Full contact -- 75 Geek triptych -- 77 Balsa Wood Free Association -- 78 For all hearbroken pizza delivery boys -- 80 Theresa, I think -- 81 Incomplete / Abridged -- 86 Therapist 4 -- 88 Chess pride, Waverly style -- 89 Night of the living -- 93 Mouse -- 94 For Brandon Lacy Campos -- 95 Well then -- 96 In harbor. III. 101 Ego-tripping as self-defense mechanism for refugee kids who got their names clowned on -- 102 Not a silverfish -- 104 Being Asian in America -- 105 Untitled / Fathers -- 106 Thousand Star Hotel -- 107 Refugerequiem.

ISBN

• 9781566894708 (softcover)
• 1566894700 (softcover)

LCCN

^^2016051821

OCLC

959036338

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library