{"id":25056,"date":"2014-12-08T00:17:36","date_gmt":"2014-12-08T08:17:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dvan.org\/?p=25056"},"modified":"2018-10-14T21:58:47","modified_gmt":"2018-10-15T04:58:47","slug":"review-land-barons-sun-genaro-ky-ly-smith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dvan.org\/2014\/12\/review-land-barons-sun-genaro-ky-ly-smith\/","title":{"rendered":"A Review of \u2018The Land Baron\u2019s Sun\u2019 by Genaro K\u1ef3 L\u00fd Smith"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Genaro K\u1ef3 L\u00fd Smith\u2019s debut book, The Land Baron\u2019s Sun<\/em>, is difficult to categorize. It\u2019s poetry for sure, but each poem is also a narrative that stands on its own very much like a short story. Additionally, each story can be linked together as part of a larger arc that can be read as a novel. This all is problematized by the fact that the book is based on Smith\u2019s grandfather, the title character L\u00fd Loc, and the Vietnam War. Confidently, The Land Baron\u2019s Sun<\/em> plays with the lines between lyric, fiction, biography, and history. This is, however, not to the detriment of the book. Indeed, its mixing of genres speaks to the fragmentation and displacement of lives that are the inevitable results of the war.<\/p>\n

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The book starts with the peaceful lives of L\u00fd Loc, a land baron in South Vietnam, and his seven wives. The prologue, \u201cIn This House of Snails,\u201d captures the family\u2019s wealth and carefree lifestyle. Here, food is plentiful\u2014\u201cthe wives speak of the garden\u2019s lush growth\u2014\/how they will have abundance\/during the monsoon season\u201d\u2014and so is the gossip. The poem and the book\u2019s numerous flashbacks are nostalgic in tone and evoke pre-war Vietnam. L\u00fd Loc, essentially a landowner of the elite class, is believed to \u201cmake the sun come down\/and show its crown.\u201d His wives\u2014sheltered as they are\u2014worry about the weather; they worry about sex and jealousy; they reminisce about love and think about \u201call the great things their child will do.\u201d<\/p>\n

This tranquility, however, is threatened by unrest throughout the country, and by the next poem, \u201cView from the Veranda: An Elegy For Chan,\u201d the mood in broken as Saigon falls \u201con a day too gray for April.\u201d The family\u2019s Chinese servant is abducted and killed.\u00a0 Ly Loc himself is arrested and brought to a re-education camp. The once intact family is scattered both in Vietnam and in the United States.<\/p>\n

The Land Baron\u2019s Sun<\/em> is not that different from many stories about Vietnam and the displacement of its diaspora. What Smith does well, and what makes his work unique, is that he weaves the story of war and the diaspora with the history of Vietnam and its people. To Smith, Vietnam is not a war, it is a country with a culture and history. The war is a chapter, not the only thing of interest and certainly not the end.<\/p>\n

In the poems, for instance, the War is seen as a natural point in the cycle of history. Smith frames the War as a mandate of heaven, the Chinese\u2014and eventually Vietnamese\u2014belief that the gods granted the right to rule and controlled dynastic changes. The Fall of Saigon is described as \u201ccolumns of black smoke pyr[ing] and spiral[ing] upward,\/informing Heaven our failure in keeping the kingdom.\u201d\u00a0 In \u201cProvidence,\u201d South Vietnamese President Ng\u00f4 \u0110\u00ecnh Di\u1ec7m sees the coup that will kill him and observes, \u201cGod sent men wearing uniforms from heaven\/….sent them floating\/to His cathedral to retrieve what He gave,\/recoup Heaven\u2019s losses to restore His home[.]\u201d To Di\u1ec7m, a Catholic, it is \u201can exodus\/not found in the Bible, but one mandated by Heaven[.]\u201d This metaphor echoes with succinct imagery in the next poem, \u201cThe False Flight of Angels,\u201d where the speaker, an officer in the South Vietnamese Army, captures, tortures, and kills Vi\u1ec7t C\u1ed9ng soldiers. The speaker notes:<\/p>\n

…I filled the South China Sea<\/p>\n

with the bodies of angels whose wings I had clipped<\/p>\n

and tied behind their backs in case God gifted His angels<\/p>\n

with the providence needed to take flight once again<\/p>\n

to fill our nightmares with their dizzying, havoc-driven patterns.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Smith inflates his war imagery with the fantastic and apocalyptic. The result is unlike anything seen in poetry about the Vietnam War. The war becomes surreal and frightening, but it also uses the vocabulary of Vietnamese traditions. Removed from this story is a focus on American involvement and the politics of the Cold War era. What is left is the emotional lives of the Vietnamese. In this way, Smith writes a wholly Vietnamese story.<\/p>\n

This extends through his investigation of the war\u2019s aftermath both in newly communist Vietnam and abroad. In \u201cA Museum of Trees,\u201d a repressed artist and his wife (one of Ly Loc\u2019s wives) hang paintings in mai trees at night, so that when the flowers close their blooms at night, they \u201cexpose the paintings\u201d though \u201cno one looks up anymore.\u201d In \u201cThe Land of Dead Children,\u201d single Vietnamese mothers struggle to raise their mixed race children:<\/p>\n

Every day [the children] go out, their hair brown or red, string or curly,<\/p>\n

Afros their mother never learned to comb and treat or plait.<\/p>\n

They go out with eyes green or black, skin freckled, tanner, noses winder,<\/p>\n

and the only thing they have of their mothers\u2019 are the eyes<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Of interest, too, are the poems about the lives of those who migrate to the Deep South of America. In Port Arthur, TX, immigrant fishermen watch a \u201cparade of boats brandishing burning crosses\/to ward off the Negro and Asian fisherman,\u201d an allusion to the Ku Klux Klan. In Ruston, LA, after refusing to convert to Christianity, a Vietnamese family find their garden uprooted and \u201cwords like gooks<\/em> and slopes<\/em> accompanied with go home<\/em> spray-painted on [their] driveway[.]\u201d<\/p>\n

Of course, this last theme could have been explored more in-depth, but undoubtedly\u2014one can hope\u2014the author is already writing works about Vietnamese Americans in the South. (To date, this is an under-examined dimension in American literature, and only Smith\u2019s book and Monique Truong\u2019s Bitter in the Mouth<\/em> comes to mind.) What we have here, though, is no small feat. Smith\u2019s book amazingly packs the complexity of character and plot and the emotional intensity of poetry into a very condensed space. At the same time, it is rich saga and history of a place and its people. With The Land Baron\u2019s Sun<\/em>, Smith makes a remarkable debut that marks him as fascinating voice in American letters. It will be interesting to see what he will publish next.<\/p>\n

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Eric Nguyen<\/strong>\u00a0is a writer from Maryland. He has a degree in sociology from the University of Maryland along with a certificate in LGBT Studies. He is currently an MFA candidate at McNeese State University and lives in Louisiana.<\/span><\/p>\n

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