Thousand Times You Lose Your Treasure by Hoa Nguyen

Thousand Times You Lose Your Treasure

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Thousand Times You Lose Your Treasure by Hoa Nguyen

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Thousand Times You Lose Your Treasure

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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.

Book Details
Publisher:
Wave Books
ISBN:
9781950268177
Binding:
Paperback
Pages:
144
Authors:
Hoa Nguyen
Published Date:
2021-04-06
Language:
English
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About Hoa Nguyen

Born in Vĩnh Long, Vietnam, in the Mekong Delta, Hoa Nguyen grew up in the Washington, D.C., area and studied poetics at New College of California. A dual U.S.-Canadian citizen, she teaches at Toronto Metropolitan University. Her collection A Thousand Times You Lose Your Treasure (Wave Books, 2021) was a finalist for the National Book Award, the Governor General's Literary Award, and the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award. Violet Energy Ingots (Wave Books, 2016) was shortlisted for the Griffin Poetry Prize. She received the 2024 C.D. Wright Award from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts.

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