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A collection inspired by Hoa's mother, a stunt motorcyclist in an all-woman Vietnamese circus troupe, is verse meditation on Vietnam's diaspora.
List of contents
CONTENTSSeeds and Crumbs
Ask about Language As If It Forgets
Naming Assembles You
"Language Points"
Autonomous Song
We Run on Trash Grass
The Flying Motorist Artist
Red She Broke the Cup
Netting (Language Ghost)
Napalm Notes
Learning the ¿àn B¿u
Di¿p Before Completion
Less Than Slash Three
Tryouts for the Flying Motorist Artist Team, 1958
German Tightrope Acrobat Group Paid a Visit to the Vietnamese Hùng Vi¿t Female Flying Motorist Artist Group
Tones in the Vietnamese Language
Mud Matrix
Why This Haunted Middle and Door Hung with Haunted Girl Bones
from Vogue Magazine 1970
Sing Ding (Ghostly)
Vietnam Ghost Story: High School Clock Tower
Revenge Poem
Red Shoes Girl Song
from On "New Music" (Tân Nh¿c): Notes Toward a Social History of Vietnamese Music in the Twentieth Century
Crow Pheasant
Exercise 14
Oxbow Lake
Mother's River Moon (Traveling with the Traveling Circus, Lower Mekong, 1959)
Notes on Operation Hades
Mexico
Warm Rain
Feast of the First Morning of the First Day
Last Letter
Durian Sonnet
Dang You Then a Dang
Unrelated Future Tense
About the author
Hoa Nguyen is the author of several books of poetry, including
A Thousand Times You Lose Your Treasure (Wave, forthcoming 2021),
As Long As Trees Last,
Red Juice, and
Violet Energy Ingots, which received a 2017 Griffin Prize nomination. As a public proponent and advocate of contemporary poetry, she has served as guest editor for
The Best Canadian Poetry in English 2018 and judge for the 2020 Griffin Prize for Poetry, and she has performed and lectured at numerous institutions, including Princeton University, Bard College, Poet's House, and the Banff Centre's Writers Studio. Recipient of a 2019 Pushcart Prize and a 2020 Neustadt International Prize for Literature nomination, she has received grants and fellowships from the Canada Council for the Arts, the Ontario Arts Council, the MacDowell, and the Millay Colony for the Arts. Her writing has garnered attention from such outlets as The PBS News Hour,
Granta,
The Walrus,
New York Times, and
Poetry, among others. Born in the Mekong Delta and raised and educated in the United States, Nguyen has lived in Canada since 2011.
Summary
A collection inspired by Hoa's mother, a stunt motorcyclist in an all-woman Vietnamese circus troupe, is verse meditation on Vietnam's diaspora.
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Nguyen remains one of the most powerful, vivid, and even visceral contemporary poets working today.
—Dan Shewan, The Rumpus
