"With Yellow Rain, Vang scores onto the record the previously silenced experiences of Hmong, rupturing the erasures within Western accounts of history, all while holding the US government, media, and scientists accountable. It is revolutionary."–Poetry
"[Mai Der Vang] transform[s] the impersonal and politically and ethically deceitful into a vivid reclamation of the brutal truth."
–Booklist, starred review "Vang's lyrical interventions strike powerful notes of lamentation and rage."
–The New Yorker, Briefly Noted "Vang memorably reckons with a complex and tragic cultural history."
–Publishers Weekly "[Mai Der Vang] transform[s] the impersonal and politically and ethically deceitful into a vivid reclamation of the brutal truth."–Booklist, starred review"Mai Der Vang's
Yellow Rain spoke to a piece of my heart that has yearned for such a work as this to come forth in response to the layered tragedies of our shared history, to establish a record in which our voices cannot be erased, our bodies forgotten, and our names forsaken. . . . An indictment of the highest and most poetic order."
–Kao Kalia Yang "Mai Der Vang intensifies and innovates documentary poetics in
Yellow Rain. It confronts empire's crimes against humanity and the interlocking power of science and military-industrial complex.
Yellow Rain is a magnificent textual revolt against historical amnesia."
–Don Mee Choi "Writing defiantly against the erasure and dismissal of Hmong experience, Mai Der Vang offers an intense condensation of Hmong knowledge and truth in
Yellow Rain. This is an impressive accomplishment that blends poetry, archive, history, and polemic in a bravura effort to assert the being and voice of Hmong people."
–Viet Thanh Nguyen