Bamboo among the Oaks: Contemporary Writing by Hmong Americans Book

	Acknowledgments
	Introduction	3
	Recovering to the Hills	17
	Being Hmong Is Not Enough	22
	A Good Hmong Woman	34
	Smokes	43
	Hmongspeak	47
	The Voice	50
	Loneliness	51
	Slices with a Hmong Knife	53
	Walking Manifesto #2	55
	Along the Way to the Mekong	57
	D.C.	61
	Father Died Twenty-five Years Ago	63
	Life in Four Short Chapters	64
	My Mother Is a Coffee Table	65
	My white lover	66
	Endstage	67
	The Hmong Wall	77
	The Shadow that Loved	78
	The Garden	83
	The True Tale of Yer	88
	The Last War Poem	98
	Fury	100
	Wisdom	101
	Hmoob Boy Meets Hmong Girl	104
	REM & Dan & Neeg & Dab Neeg	109
	Twinkies	111
	Extraordinary Hmong	111
	Yellow Man's Burden	113
	Ms. Pac-Man Ruined My Gang Life	114
	Disconnect	122
	943	138
	The Case of the Red Pens	145
	Dreams of a Forgotten Widow	152
	Some Old Hmong Woman	153
	We Women of the Hmong culture	154
	Reflections of My Father	155
	A Tropical Garden in the San Joaquin Valley	159
	Chino	160
	Letter from the Shore of the Dragon River	162
	Immunization	165
	Retired	166
	The American	167
	The Last Walk	170
	The Lovers: A Halloween Tale of Horror	174
	Broken	180
	Running Away from Home	181
	The Green House	183
	Condom Nations	184
	Chapter One	186
	In Remembrance	187
	Spirit Trails	188
	Mother's Day	189
	My Dad the Mekong and Me the Mississippi	190
	Is the Beauty Queen a Real Woman?	192
	Contributors	196
	Notes	203