Kao Kalia Yang’s father, Bee Yang, was 12 years old when he began singing Hmong song poetry in his native Laos. He stopped when his mother died in 2003 and he was the father of seven children living in St. Paul. Those are the bookends of Yang’s inventive and touching memoir, “The Song Poet.” In Hmong tradition, the song poet is the keeper of the stories of his people, one who invokes the spirits and the homeland…
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