Dustin Nelson
January 28, 2025 at 4:57 PM
The Friends of the St. Paul Public Library has unveiled the finalists for the 2025 Minnesota Book Awards.
The winners in its 10 categories will be announced at an April 22 ceremony held at the Ordway Center for Performing Arts. New this year, the categories include an anthology category, which will be part of the awards every other year going forward.
https://www.aol.com/minnesota-book-awards-unveils-2025-225752833.html
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Thaum Hluas Txog Hnub Laus: When the Days of Youth are Gone (Bee Yang, 2014)
This is an album of Hmong song poetry, kwv txhiaj hmoob, composed and sung by Bee Yang, Kao Kalia Yang’s father. The album notes and English translation of one of the songs are by Kao Kalia Yang.
Kwv txhiaj is, in the words of Ralph Ellison on the American Blues, “an impulse to keep the painful details and episodes of a brutal experience alive in one’s aching consciousness, to finger its jagged grain, and to transcend it, not by the consolation of philosophy but by squeezing from it a near-tragic, near-cosmic lyricism. As a form, the blues [and kwv txhiaj] is an autobiographical chronicle of personal catastrophe expressed lyrically.”
NOTE: The duration of the songs do not reflect the actual song length. Please consider ordering the CD for the full songs. Thank you.
*This CD is available for purchase for $15. Click below to order:
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