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Poems of loss, rage, love, and what endures.
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AUTUMN 2012 POEM
DEAR LOVE NOT AS A SLAVE,
MEKONG I
HAUNTED SONNET
A BRIEF HISTORY OF WAR
HEADLESS OR HEAD
WHO WAS ANDREW JACKSON?
A SEPTEMBER ELEVENTH POEM
SCREAMING
BIRTHDAY POEM
PHARAOH NOTES
WEEK OF WORDS
HOW THE SUN SHIVERS
AFTER SONNET 117
POEM OF FIRST LINES FROM JACK SPICER POEMS
STRUMMER
MEANT TO
SOME, VISITING
JANUARY
THREAD CORD
HAWK CHASED BY BLACKBIRDS
TOWER SONNET
MACHIAVELLI NOTES
DIANA WAS THE MOON
BLOUSY GUITAR
DIGRESSIVE PARENTHESIS
I DIDN¿T KNOW
PS:
FIRST FLOWERS
THE WHITEBOARD
ORPHEUS POEM
LOCUST TREE NOTES (EAST TORONTO)
MY GREEN
I AM TOO
EAT VIOLETS
ANGEL GOING POW
MOAN & LOW
SHE SAILS (SPRING)
POEM OF FIRST LINES FROM TAGORE POEMS
HID
DO I PLUNGE
SUNFLOWER GUARDIANS
SPARROW AGAIN
BLOODLANDS
ARTIFACTS FROM THE ¿UNEARTHLY CAVE¿ NAMED
¿THE PLACE WHERE THE MAN WAS KILLED BY THE BULL¿
AFTER THE MURDER BALLAD
TO SEEK
EVE
COPPER
DREAM IN OCTOBER
ME THAT
THE DIFFERENCE IS VELOCITY
FOR LOVE RED
RED VOICE
OWL
TORN
YOU
SONNET FOR MIMIR¿S HEAD
AFTER THE SONG
AND
LEAVE
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. With the poet Dale Smith, Nguyen founded Skanky Possum, a poetry journal and book imprint in Austin, TX, their home of 14 years. She is the author of several poetry collections, most recently Red Juice: Poems 1998-2008 and As Long as Trees Last. She lives in Toronto, Ontario where she curates a reading series and teaches poetics privately and at Ryerson University.
