Bao Phi culls his lyric stories from news headlines and from the street, calling attention to the injustices that make it into the papers, and to those that don’t. He reopens wounds caused by racism and its equally lethal counterpart, complacency, and then examines them with a touch that is as robust as it is reflective. The poems in Sông I Sing unite beauty of phrase with intent of message, and the intimate exchange between the two is stirring. That Phi is an accomplished spoken word artist makes this feat no less impressive.