Red Juice: Poems 1998-2008 - Poems 1998-2008

A collection of early poems, rare or out-of-print, by Hoa Nguyen, a poet who tersely cracks the shell of dailiness.

List of contents

CONTENTS

Introduction

YOUR ANCIENT SEE THROUGH

onion head I have

[Buddhäs ears are droopy touch his shoulders]
Baked Alaska
[Find & fund It¿s a prison oven]
[bad beats it says now ¿come on in]
[I¿m almost your cat¿s pajamas]
Lozenge
View
Box of Butter
[Mulberry mess squish squash]
[The yelling father makes metered babies]
A Story of History
I Woke Up this Morning and it was Friday
[Unorthodox & impractical one not led]

the trillionth day of DNA

Smell the Purple Incense that May or May Not Smell Better than the Rat You Name ¿Composition¿
Ritual for Attracting Money
Poppies
[Sitting there nearly translucent You¿ll end up]
[Baby I¿ve drawn your face]
[A night at the beach what is left]
[Flying colors land divide a place You]
Rosy
Fob
Horse Song
[Ride a bike to Houston]
[What can be my disobey]
[I like the light blue]

pink bridge

[Untouched bubble gum me]
Mnemosyne
[Pink bridge hearts that look like]
Shred
[Pause rate the fall]
[hard tofu what to eat today]
[house on fire my mom¿s]
[Underwater Flower]
Offing
[Crass and burn your terrible]
[Cold black little puddle stops]
[Jealous all the pissy things]
Mission Dolores

¿last pieces¿

Time Out From the Hazard Garden & Instantaneous Baloney
18-year-old Kurt Cobain Arrested For Painting ¿Homosexual Sex Rules¿ on the Side of an Aberdeen Bank: Police Report of Pocket Contents
[Cats underwater a zoo]
From a NY Times Review of Klemperer¿s 1942 ¿ 1945 Diary
Dream 5.22.97
Speckled
[Mean suddenly Bitch woman]
Captive and Able
To Pass
Speaking When Spoken to
[Monster made you were]
[Let¿s see if she¿ll run away]
[Years after stealing cattle from the womb]

rose patch

[You have your ancient see through]
Dark
Some Dumb Love
Hesitating Winter
[Staying at work for lunch]
[Exhaustion break through challenges]
[Pastel lapel Pretend Erase]
Calm In The Vegetable Beard Of Time
[Interlocking profiles]
[Look on the damned lake]
[Tortured fire and foot held]
Grey
The Tea Is You You Are The Tea
[Roll in your skull gone green]

let¿s eat red for fun

[Love calls for Hades cold cream]
Cupid of Rocks and Flame
Index Finger
[Love is a purple angel]
Funk Enters English by 1625
[Crows and grackles grackles]
[Pretty headdress on Kidumiel]
[Because x marks the spot]
Wish
[Fall in love in Luna]
[Grow baby grow a brain with curly]
[Let me be a meaningful soul]
Dear Death
[Shy mouth not the value of it (lips)]

RED JUICE

Up Nursing
The Earth is in Me
¿By Goods We Destroy Good¿
Journey With Investigative Bees
The Unknown Woman
Yesterday
Wore a Hemp Hat
Women With Sharp Noses
You Say the Land
A Lily Mother
I Found Him Beneath a Tree
Spring Sonnet
Eurasiacan
Ronald McDonald
The News Pictures the Beheaded
The Secrecy of Arms at Dawn
¿Unhemmed Latitude¿
If I Can¿t Have Another Baby
Blackberries
The Goddess Gave Me Roses
Lacy Light
notes

HECATE LOCHIA

Some Things
Add Some Blue
Thinking of Bernadette
Blue Norther
Putt Putt the Car
Birthday Poem
Post Hurricane Ike Almost Equinox
We Are Free to Eat
God
Iris Again
Dust
I¿m in Very
The Size
Water That Falls From the Sky
Purple Vomit
Long Light
I Disgorge the Vegetation
Tremendous
Prop
Another Stabbing Boldface
Orangey
Drippy
A Crime Pendulant
No Sleep
Write Fucked Up Poems
I¿m Sorry for You Sad Marigolds
9 Flat Flies in the House
Butterflies, Breastmilk, Chinese Jade, Continuous Present, & Motorcycles
Strangely Touched
I Stole That
Big Heart Small Heart
I Like Being Lucky
Ode
Needing
Great Mother of the Gods
I Can Extract Myself/ From That Emotion
The Sun Person
Horse Herb
Seagulls
Ugly Poem
I¿m Driving
Seeds Stuck in Ground
Strut
I Said Apprehend To Seize
Pusa
The Ballerina in a Music Box
Washington
February 2, 2007
You Can Ride
Short
No One Wants
Mountain Gorillas
I Could Scream
This Collapse
Living
Cupid Rides
The Starbucks Mermaid
Medina Apples
Get Debt Relief
Upsidedown Again
Tuesday
Climb
Building
The Problem
Fraying
What Was in Her Ash-Wood Box
China Plans
Monsters in the Myth
Dying Light
Cat at the Door
Heather¿s Real Face
Cherries
Monday
Hecate Doesn¿t
Grackles Grack
They Sell You What Disappears
Cancel That
Calm-Lived
Chemical Color
I Need More Cowbell
To Explode
A Debt
We Might Be Folding
Towels
Great Funds
Lenses
Leap Day Notes
Bendy
Grey Slice
Poem
Sleepy
Of Mercury

About the author

Born in the Mekong Delta and raised in the Washington, D.C. area, Hoa Nguyen studied Poetics at New College of California in San Francisco where she earned an MFA. She is the author of three full-length collections of poetry, including As Long as Trees Last (Wave Books, 2012), Hecate Lochia (Hot Whiskey Press, 2009), and Your Ancient See Through (Subpress, 2002). Her poetry has been collected in eight anthologies including Days I Moved Through Ordinary Sound: The Teachers of WritersCorps in Poetry and Prose (City Lights, 2009), The Best of Fence (Fence Books, 2009), For the Time Being: A Bootstrap Anthology (Bootstrap Books, 2008), Black Dog, Black Night: Contemporary Vietnamese Poetry (Milkweed Editions, 2008), and Not for Mothers Only (Fence Books, 2007). With the poet Dale Smith, Nguyen founded Skanky Possum, a small press journal of poetry and poetics. From Austin, TX, their home of fourteen years, the poets published contemporaries such as Amiri Baraka, Alice Notley, Linh Dinh, Kenward Elmslie, and Eileen Myles. Nguyen currently lives in Toronto, Ontario, where she curates a reading series and teaches poetics privately and at Ryerson University.

Product details

• Authors: Hoa Nguyen
• Publisher: Wave Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 18.09.2014
• EAN: 9781933517933
• ISBN: 978-1-933517-93-3
• No. of pages: 272
• Dimensions: 211 mm x 142 mm x 29 mm
• Weight: 478 g
• Illustrations: Illustrations
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies