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"Not Here is a flight plan for escape and a map for navigating home; a queer Vietnamese American body in confrontation with whiteness, trauma, family, and nostalgia; and a big beating heart of a book. Nguyen's poems ache with loneliness and desire and the giddy terrors of allowing yourself...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Nguyen, Hieu Minh (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Minneapolis : Coffee House Press, 2018.
Subjects:
Vietnamese American families > Poetry.
Families > Poetry.
American poetry.
2000-2099
Poetry
Poetry.
poetry.
Gay poetry.
Poésie.
Table of Contents:
  • White boy time machine: instruction manual
  • Lesson
  • Again, let me tell you what I know about trust
  • Still, somehow
  • Nguyẽn
  • Elegy for the first
  • White boy time machine: software
  • Type II
  • Attending the party
  • Dear X
  • The study
  • White boy time machine: joy ride
  • Again, what do I know about desire?
  • Cockfight
  • #2
  • Again, let me explain again
  • White boy time machine: return policy
  • Baptism
  • Apology, sort of
  • Probe
  • Punish
  • Mercy
  • White boy time machine: safety tips
  • B.F.F.
  • Pig
  • Hosting
  • White boy time machine: override
  • Changeling
  • Commute
  • Ode to the pubic hair stuck in my throat
  • Note
  • Politics of an elegy
  • White boy time machine: error
  • The ranger
  • Afterwards
  • Reunion
  • Heavy
  • Monica West is moving to Omaha, Nebraska
  • Note on staying.