The Song Poet: A Memoir of My Father

Kalia structures The Song Poet as a musical album. How does this influence the reader’s understanding of the memoir?

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? 

Bee lives out many roles in the memoir: son, husband, father, machinist, poet. Which of these roles best defines him?