Mai Der Vang | Maiv Dawb Vaj
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Mai Der Vang | Maiv Dawb Vaj
@maidervang.bsky.social
So grateful for you <3
March 4, 2025 at 11:53 PM
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March 4, 2025 at 5:01 PM
It was my pleasure! Congratulations ✨
February 25, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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February 5, 2025 at 11:28 PM
Photo of saola: camera trap, 1999, Ban Vangban village, Bolikhamxay province, central Laos. Courtesy of William Robichaud, Wildlife Conservation Society. www.graywolfpress.org/books/primor...
February 5, 2025 at 11:15 PM
thankful to Bill Robichaud, saola conservationist, and the Saola Foundation, for their continued efforts; thankful to Hoa Nguyen and Douglas Kearney for their generous blurbs; thankful to my family, and to all of you, dear readers. Thank you and onward.
February 5, 2025 at 11:15 PM
I’m thankful to Carmen Giménez, Jeff Shotts, and many others at @graywolfpress.bsky.social for giving this book a home; thankful to my partner and courageous fellow poet @anthonycody.bsky.social along with my son Máximo who helped steer this book along in their own special ways;
February 5, 2025 at 11:15 PM
I thought about the Secret War, too, as I always seem to do, with this year marking the 50th anniversary of the end to the U.S. wars in Vietnam and Laos.
February 5, 2025 at 11:15 PM
I thought about how the environment, the landscape, the flora, and the wildlife all become casualties of war, forced to evolve or go into hiding to survive extermination.
February 5, 2025 at 11:15 PM
I wondered about the ways that a war-torn landscape might also serve as a vibrant ecosystem and sanctuary supporting rare species like saola.
February 5, 2025 at 11:15 PM
My third book, PRIMORDIAL, comes out March 4, 2025 from @graywolfpress.bsky.social. The book is about saola, a highly rare and critically endangered animal endemic to the Annamite Mountains between Laos and Vietnam, an animal I have long thought about since my first book.
February 5, 2025 at 11:15 PM