YELLOW RAIN
(GRAYWOLF PRESS)


WINNER 2022 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize of the Academy of American Poets
WINNER 2022 American Book Award
WINNER 2022 Northern California Book Award

FINALIST 2022 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry
FINALIST 2022 PEN/Voelcker Award for Poetry
FINALIST 2021 LA Times Book Prize in Poetry
FINALIST 2022 California Book Award in Poetry

Mai Der Vang intensifies and innovates documentary poetics in Yellow Rain. It confronts empire’s crimes against humanity and the interlocking power of science and military-industrial complex. Yellow Rain is a magnificent textual revolt against historical amnesia.
—Don Mee Choi

Vang’s lyrical interventions strike powerful notes of lamentation and rage, yet most effective are her visual collage-poems, which use fragmentation to interrogate the inhumanity of the official account.
—The New Yorker

ESSAY
Yellow Rain: A reckoning and re-investigation into the dismissing of Hmong allegations
(Entropy, Dec. 2021)

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