
A Thousand Times You Lose Your Treasure
by Hoa Nguyen
Title:
A Thousand Times You Lose Your Treasure
Author:
Hoa Nguyen
Format:
Paperback
Number of pages:
144 pages, Illustrations
Publisher:
Wave Books
ISBN-13:
9781950268177
EAN:
9781950268177
Classifications:
Poetry
Weight (g):
326
Dimensions (mm):
153 x 209 x 12
Publication Country:
United Kingdom
Language:
English
Condition:
New
Description
2021 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST FOR POETRYA 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.











