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  title info:
    title: Primordial
  name:
    name part: Vang, Mai Der
    name part: 1981-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: mnu
    date issued: 2025
    copyright date: 2025
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 162 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
  abstract: Mai Der Vang's poetry-lyrically insistent and visually compelling-constitutes a groundbreaking investigation into the collective trauma and resilience experienced by Hmong people and communities, the ongoing cultural and environmental repercussions of the war in Vietnam, the lives of refugees afterward and the postmemory carried by their descendants. Primordial is a crucial turn to the ecological and generational impact of violence, a powerful and rousing meditation on climate, origin and fate. With profound and attentive care, Vang addresses the plight of the saola, an extremely rare and critically endangered animal native to the Annamite Mountains in Laos and Vietnam. The saola looks like an antelope, with two long horns and is related to wild cattle, though the saola has been placed in a genus of its own. Remarkably, the saola has only been known to the outside world since 1992, and sightings are so rare that it has now been more than a decade since the last known image of one was captured in a camera trap photo in 2013. Primordial examines the saola's relationship to Hmong refugee identity and cosmology and a shared sense of exile, precarity, privacy and survival. Can a war-torn landscape and memory provide sanctuary, and what are the consequences for our climate, our origins and our ability to belong to a homeland? Written during a difficult pregnancy and postpartum period, Vang's poems are urgent stays against extinction.
  target audience: adult
  note: Mai Der Vang.
  note: Includes bibliographical references.
  subject:
    geographic code: a-ls---
  subject:
    topic: Saola
    genre: Poetry
  subject:
    topic: Hmong (Asian people)
    genre: Poetry
  subject:
    geographic: Laos
    genre: Poetry
  classification: PS3622.A646 P75 2025
  classification: 811/.6
  identifier: 9781644453261
  identifier: 1644453266
  identifier: 9781644453278
  identifier: 2024036179
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 240816
    record change date: 20250929162401.8
    record identifier: in00005644467