Staying Still
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Staying Still
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Stegner and NEA Fellow Hieu Minh Nguyen's visionary poetry collection about generational loneliness, desire, and longing.Â
The highly anticipated follow-up to the award-winning poetry collection Not Here, Hieu Minh Nguyen's Staying Still centers on the question of how How do our anxieties around the idea of belonging estrange us from the very world we seek to belong in? How impossible does it feel to stay still and face ourselves? From the intimate longing of queer boyhood to the collective expectations imposed upon children of refugees, these poems face head-on the rejections, grief, and violence we fear in fractured family dynamics, love, and desire as we search for our place in this world.
PRAISE FOR STAYING STILLÂ
"I am in the passenger seat heading wherever this poet wants to take me." --Danez Smith, author Bluff: Poems
Book Details
- Publisher:
- Tin House
- ISBN:
- 9781638934707
- Binding:
- Paperback
- Pages:
- 112
- Authors:
- Hieu Minh Nguyen
- Published Date:
- 2026-09-01
- Language:
- English
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Hieu Minh Nguyen: Hieu Minh Nguyen was one of my gateway poets, showing me how a poem can erase the distance between reader and speaker, making you feel as though you’re standing together, heart to heart. From a craft perspective, his poems are masterpieces, weaving the plainly spoken with the surprising and surreal. They are also acts of boldness and risk, explorations of what it means to show up on the page with every tender hurt and hard-won healing, holding nothing back.