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Availability:In StockContributor:Hoa NguyenPublish date:4/6/2021Pages:144
Language:EnglishPublisher:Wave BooksISBN-13:9781950268177ISBN-10:1950268179UPC:9781950268177Book Category:PoetryBook Subcategory:American, Subjects & Themes, Women AuthorsBook Topic:Asian American & Pacific Islander, FamilyAward:2021 National Book Awards Finalist - Poetry AwardSize:8.00 x 6.00 x 0.50 inchesWeight:0.4497Product ID:SC8MF1VQ1M

2021 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST FOR POETRY


A collection inspired by Hoa's mother, a stunt motorcyclist in an all-woman Vietnamese circus troupe, is verse meditation on Vietnam's diaspora.


Hoa Nguyen's latest collection is a poetic meditation on historical, personal, and cultural pressures pre- and post-"Fall-of-Saigon" and comprises a verse biography on her mother, Diep Anh Nguyen, a stunt motorcyclist in an all-woman Vietnamese circus troupe. Multilayered, plaintive, and provocative, the poems in A Thousand Times You Lose Your Treasure are alive with archive and inhabit histories. In turns lyrical and unsettling, her poetry sings of language and loss; dialogues with time, myth and place; and communes with past and future ghosts.

Language:EnglishPublisher:Wave BooksISBN-13:9781950268177ISBN-10:1950268179UPC:9781950268177Book Category:PoetryBook Subcategory:American, Subjects & Themes, Women AuthorsBook Topic:Asian American & Pacific Islander, FamilyAward:2021 National Book Awards Finalist - Poetry AwardSize:8.00 x 6.00 x 0.50 inchesWeight:0.4497Product ID:SC8MF1VQ1M

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.


Publisher: Wave Books

Awards

🏆 2021 National Book Awards Finalist - Poetry Award

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Hoa Nguyen

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