45 pages • 1 hour read
The Song Poet: A Memoir of My Father
Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2016
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Essay Topics
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Kalia structures The Song Poet as a musical album. How does this influence the reader’s understanding of the memoir?
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Kalia does not begin describing her father as a poet until she is a grown woman. What does it mean to be a poet or an artist?
3.
Bee lives out many roles in the memoir: son, husband, father, machinist, poet. Which of these roles best defines him?
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