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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.
The Smeds and the Smoos 
Let Us Compare Mythologies 
Collected Poems and Drawings of Stevie Smith 
Hansel and Gretel 
Somewhere Else Entirely 
Let's Celebrate! 
Pauses and Digressions 
The Tamarit Poems 
The Million-Petalled Flower of Being Here 
My First Mr. Men Nursery Rhymes 
Spiritlands 
The 'White City' 
Strong in the Rain 
I Don't Want This Poem to End: Final Poems and Prose 
Words the Turtle Taught Me 
Then What