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The Song Poet: A Memoir of My Father elders healers are the connective clothIn the Hmong tradition, the song poet recounts the story of his people, their history and tragedies, joys and losses. He keeps the past alive, invokes the spirits and the homeland, and records courtships, births, weddings, and wishes. Following her award winning memoir The Latehomecomer, Kao Kalia Yang now retells the life of her father, Bee Yang, the song poet a Hmong refugee in Minnesota, driven from the mountains of Laos by America's Secret War.