A thousand times you lose your treasure /
A poetic meditation on historical, personal and cultural pressures pre- and post-"Fall-of-Saigon" with verse biography on the poet's mother, Diệp Anh Nguyễn, a stunt motorcyclist in an all-women Vietnamese circus troupe. Multilayered, plaintive and provocative, the poems in A Thousand...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Seattle :
Wave Books,
[2021].
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| Edition: | First edition. |
| Series: | Wave books (Seattle, Wash.) ;
090. |
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| Summary: | A poetic meditation on historical, personal and cultural pressures pre- and post-"Fall-of-Saigon" with verse biography on the poet's mother, Diệp Anh Nguyễn, a stunt motorcyclist in an all-women Vietnamese circus troupe. Multilayered, plaintive and provocative, the poems in A Thousand Times You Lose Your Treasure are alive with archive and inhabit histories. By turns lyrical and unsettling, Hoa Nguyen's poetry sings of language and loss, dialogues with time, myth and place and communes with past and future ghosts. |
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| Physical Description: | 118 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 9781950268184 1950268187 9781950268177 1950268179 |