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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 of Mercy 
A Cowfoot: 18 Stolen Sonnets 
States of Happiness 
Words the Turtle Taught Me 
Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats 
Little Boy 
Somewhere Else Entirely 
Pretend You Don't Know Me 
Insistence 
101 Poems About Childhood 
Chameleon