{"id":545,"date":"2013-04-16T16:05:48","date_gmt":"2013-04-16T20:05:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/236magazine\/?page_id=545"},"modified":"2013-04-24T10:11:13","modified_gmt":"2013-04-24T14:11:13","slug":"poetry-duy-doan","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/236magazine\/past-issues\/current-issue-2\/poetry-duy-doan\/","title":{"rendered":"Poetry: Duy Doan"},"content":{"rendered":"<h6>Duy Doan (Poetry 2010) is a second-generation Vietnamese American. He was born and   raised in Dallas and currently lives in Boston, where he teaches and is  working on his first book of poems.<\/h6>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h1>HISTORY LESSON FROM ANH HAI<\/h1>\n<p>I spoke to Great-Aunt tonight. She sounded like her sister.<br \/>\nIt had been fifty years since they\u2019d last spoken; mom said they cried over the phone.<br \/>\nB\u00e0 N\u1ed9i used to always tell me <i>\u0111i tu \u0111i con<\/i>. But I know<br \/>\nThe difference between tu and t\u00f9 is one mark.<\/p>\n<p>Fifty years since they\u2019d last spoken; mom said they cried.<br \/>\nThe night father braved the jungles, B\u00e0 N\u1ed9i also cried.<br \/>\nThe difference between tu and t\u00f9 is one mark.<br \/>\nOnce I heard about a monk who died setting himself on fire.<\/p>\n<p>B\u00e0 N\u1ed9i cried the night father braved the jungles.<br \/>\nThey were bad times. A nun and monk were made to fornicate in the street.<br \/>\nOnce I heard about a monk who set himself on fire.<br \/>\nTwenty years later the rodent problem\u2014200 \u0111\u1ed3ng per severed tail.<\/p>\n<p>They were bad times. A nun and monk made to fornicate in the street.<br \/>\nB\u00e0 N\u1ed9i used to always say <i>\u0111i tu \u0111i con<\/i>. But I know.<br \/>\nTwenty years later the rodent problem\u2014200 \u0111\u1ed3ng per severed tail.<br \/>\nI spoke to Great-Aunt tonight. She sounded like B\u00e0 N\u1ed9i.<\/p>\n<p>Notes:<\/p>\n<p><i>Anh Hai<\/i> \u2013 older brother, the oldest son<br \/>\n<i>B\u00e0 N\u1ed9i<\/i> \u2013 paternal grandmother<br \/>\n<i>\u0111i tu \u0111i con<\/i> \u2013 enter the priesthood; become a monk<br \/>\n<i>tu<\/i> \u2013 priesthood<br \/>\n<i>t\u00f9<\/i> \u2013 prison<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;History Lesson from Anh Hai&#8221; was originally published in Slate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Duy Doan (Poetry 2010) is a second-generation Vietnamese American. He was born and raised in Dallas and currently lives in Boston, where he teaches and is working on his first book of poems. &nbsp; HISTORY LESSON FROM ANH HAI I spoke to Great-Aunt tonight. She sounded like her sister. It had been fifty years since [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3755,"featured_media":0,"parent":522,"menu_order":4,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/236magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/545"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/236magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/236magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/236magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3755"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/236magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=545"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/236magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/545\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":698,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/236magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/545\/revisions\/698"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/236magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/236magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}