Title:
A thousand times you lose your treasure / Hoa Nguyen.
ISBN:
9781950268184
9781950268177
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Edition:
First edition.
Publication Information:
Seattle : Wave Books, [2021]
Physical Description:
118 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Contents:
Seeds and crumbs -- Ask about language as if It forgets -- Naming assembles you -- "Language points" -- Autonomous song -- We run on trash grass -- The flying motorist artist -- Red she broke the cup -- Netting (Language Ghost) -- Napalm notes -- Learning the Dan Bau -- Diep before completion -- Less than slash three -- Tryouts for the flying motorist artist team, 1958 -- German tightrope acrobat group paid a visit to the Vietnamese hung viet female flying motorist artist group -- Tones in the Vietnamese language -- Mud matrix -- Why this haunted middle and door Hung with haunted girl bones -- from vogue magazine 1970 -- Sing ding (Ghostly) -- Vietnam ghost story: high school clock tower -- Revenge poem -- Red shoes girl song -- from on "New Music" (Tan Nhac): notes toward a social history of vietnamese music in the twentieth century -- Crow pheasant -- Exercise 14 -- Oxbow lake -- Mother's river moon (Traveling with the traveling circus, lower mekong, 1959) -- Notes on operation hades -- Mexico -- Warm rain -- Feast of the first morning of the first day -- Last letter -- Durian sonnet -- Dang you then a dang -- Unrelated future tense -- Scooby-doo villain ghoul method a.k.a US military psychological operation "wandering soul" -- Hagiography -- Can't write white and asian -- Spoken through the cracked eye -- Overseas Vietnamese -- Thoi the fragments (current affairs) -- Offering for souls -- Vietnam ghost story: da lat lovers -- Fortune cookie no forture -- "O my 4fh planes" (Cries of Johnson: a folk opera) -- Transplant -- Shock fate -- 2nd letter -- Sacred ficus sonnet -- Failed tower ca dao -- Cold sore lip red coat -- Vietnam ghost story: towers of district 5 -- She leads with flower wands -- Made by dow -- Viewed from 2020 -- Heartlessness -- We sing to -- Sings the wishing well (the ghost well cared-for) -- Hung viet.
Summary:
"A new collection of poetry by Hoa Nguyen"-- Provided by publisher.
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. -- Provided by publisher.
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OCLC Number:
on1191457153
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