Much more than a set of poems, [Thousand Star Hotel] is its own history: a chronicle of Phi's family, present, past and future. Spinning this history together from fragments of memory and reflection, the collection provides a critical thread in the fabric of Asian American literature, history, and activism--past and present. --Kartika Review, The Stories Bao Phi Tells Written with immense empathy and honesty, Thousand Star Hotel is a moving, heartbreakingly beautiful portrait of the lives of Vietnamese refugees in the U.S. --Buzzfeed .. .Thousand Star Hotel skillfully weaves a range of topics -- police brutality, Asian American representation, masculinity, fatherhood, and his immigrant experience growing up in Minnesota, to name just a few. --Angry Asian Man, Trust the Process: An Interview with Poet Bao Phi The many fans of Bao Phi will be thrilled by this book. New readers will be seduced by his trademark blend of passion, politics, and poetry. His poems alternate between the profane and the provocative as they deal with war and history, love and heartbreak, the inner city and the inner self. A powerful read, a gutsy writer. --Viet Thanh Nguyen
[Thousand Star Hotel] is bold in its language for experiences that oscillate between existence and erasure, and it is moving in its mission to challenge the boundaries of solidarity and to refuse neat conceptions of past, present and future. --The Writers' Block Blog, interview These poems are significant and weighty, but in an instant they go from somber to full of swagger, and I can't emphasize enough how thrilling they felt to read. --Asian American Writer's Workshop Thousand Star Hotel feels bracing and true. Phi's voice is as electric in print as on the stage, coupling precise imagery with a surprising frankness. --The Rumpus Bao Phi's Thousand Star Hotel is a vividly inward look at an Asian American experience that never flinches from the hard realizations of humanity. Bao ties generations together at his personal crossroad of fatherhood and lets the reader see, feel, and hear the electricity of his renowned stage performance blossoming on the page. Bao's poems haunt our collective American psyche until a 'new region of the tongue is discovered' that lets us know what 'tastes like the middle of the crosshairs of a drone bomber / tastes like science concocting survival.' --Tyehimba Jess, author of Olio
Bao Phi's Thousand Star Hotel echoes the fire in his earlier work, which skewers racism and class with the precision of a skilled chef. Yet, when Phi splits open the vulnerable and humbling moments of love, childhood, and fatherhood, he creates a body of satisfying, poignant poems that create moments of quiet introspection like diners hushed by the first bites of an anticipated meal. Bao Phi carries an honest, powerful voice, and he is not afraid to look into the boiling pots of his past or the roiling violence in America and abroad. --Tara Betts, author of Break the Habit Thousand Star Hotel is equal parts heartbreaking and bitingly funny... This volume is a must-read for readers seeking a greater understanding of race, but also for any reader who has children or parents, experienced heartbreak, or just loves the sound of finely wrought lines. --Star Tribune
Finalist for the Minnesota Book Award for Poetry At once tender and taboo-busting, pithy and sprawling, effulgent and expository, Thousand Star Hotel is a compendium of 'warring ideals' spoken through the voices and seen through the eyes of a refugee child turned poet adult, his embattled parents, neighborhood pals and bullies, past flames and would-be lovers, an exotifying culture--not to mention Phi's young daughter, for whom the collection is a record with which she might one day construct her own consciousness. --Kenyon Review [Phi] has few peers that can match him in his assessment of contemporary culture and social justice. --Cultural Weekly
Much more than a set of poems, [Thousand Star Hotel] is its own history: a chronicle of Phi's family, present, past and future. Spinning this history together from fragments of memory and reflection, the collection provides a critical thread in the fabric of Asian American literature, history, and activism--past and present. --Kartika Review, The Stories Bao Phi Tells The many fans of Bao Phi will be thrilled by this book. New readers will be seduced by his trademark blend of passion, politics, and poetry. His poems alternate between the profane and the provocative as they deal with war and history, love and heartbreak, the inner city and the inner self. A powerful read, a gutsy writer. --Viet Thanh Nguyen
Bao Phi's Thousand Star Hotel is a vividly inward look at an Asian American experience that never flinches from the hard realizations of humanity. Bao ties generations together at his personal crossroad of fatherhood and lets the reader see, feel, and hear the electricity of his renowned stage performance blossoming on the page. Bao's poems haunt our collective American psyche until a 'new region of the tongue is discovered' that lets us know what 'tastes like the middle of the crosshairs of a drone bomber / tastes like science concocting survival.' --Tyehimba Jess, author of Olio
Bao Phi's Thousand Star Hotel echoes the fire in his earlier work, which skewers racism and class with the precision of a skilled chef. Yet, when Phi splits open the vulnerable and humbling moments of love, childhood, and fatherhood, he creates a body of satisfying, poignant poems that create moments of quiet introspection like diners hushed by the first bites of an anticipated meal. Bao Phi carries an honest, powerful voice, and he is not afraid to look into the boiling pots of his past or the roiling violence in America and abroad. --Tara Betts, author of Break the Habit Thousand Star Hotel is equal parts heartbreaking and bitingly funny... This volume is a must-read for readers seeking a greater understanding of race, but also for any reader who has children or parents, experienced heartbreak, or just loves the sound of finely wrought lines. --Star Tribune
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