A thousand times you lose your treasure

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A collection inspired by Hoa’s mother, a stunt motorcyclist in an all-woman Vietnamese circus troupe, is verse meditation on Vietnam’s diaspora.

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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.

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Weight 206 g
Dimensions 20.3 × 15.2 × 1.2 cm
Author

Publisher

Wave Books

Imprint

Cover

Paperback

Pages

144

Language

English

Edition
Dewey

811.6 (edition:23)

Readership

General – Trade / Code: K