A Thousand Times You Lose Your Treasure

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By Hoa Nguyen

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A Thousand Times You Lose Your Treasure by Hoa Nguyen is a poetic exploration of historical, personal, and cultural pressures surrounding the Fall of Saigon. The collection serves as a verse biography of Nguyen's mother, Diep Anh Nguyen, a stunt motorcyclist in an all-woman Vietnamese circus troupe. The poems are multilayered and provocative, rich with history and archive, blending lyrical beauty with unsettling reflections on language, loss, time, myth, and place.
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Ideal for readers interested in contemporary poetry, Vietnamese history and culture, and those drawn to deeply personal, lyrical meditations on identity and memory.

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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Hoa Nguyen's latest collection is a poetic meditation on historical, personal, and cultural pressures pre- and post-Fall of Saigon. It 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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Critics praise Hoa Nguyen's work for its depth and vividness. Gabrielle Calvocoressi of PEN America notes, "I come back to Hoa Nguyen’s poems all the time and every single time I find a new world of meaning." Dan Shewan from The Rumpus calls Nguyen "one of the most powerful, vivid, and even visceral contemporary poets working today."

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781950268177

Publisher: Wave Books

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 20 May 2021

Country: United States

Imprint: Wave Books

Illustration: Illustrations

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 152.0mm

Height: 203.0mm

Weight: 250g

Pages: 144

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Arts & Culture Hoa Nguyen Non-Fiction Poetry

About the Author

Hoa Nguyen is the author of several books of poetry, including A Thousand Times You Lose Your Treasure (Wave, forthcoming 2021), As Long As Trees Last, Red Juice, and Violet Energy Ingots, which received a 2017 Griffin Prize nomination. As a public proponent and advocate of contemporary poetry, she has served as guest editor for The Best Canadian Poetry in English 2018 and judge for the 2020 Griffin Prize for Poetry, and she has performed and lectured at numerous institutions, including Princeton University, Bard College, Poet's House, and the Banff Centre's Writers Studio. Recipient of a 2019 Pushcart Prize and a 2020 Neustadt International Prize for Literature nomination, she has received grants and fellowships from the Canada Council for the Arts, the Ontario Arts Council, the MacDowell, and the Millay Colony for the Arts. Her writing has garnered attention from such outlets as The PBS News Hour, Granta, The Walrus, New York Times, and Poetry, among others. Born in the Mekong Delta and raised and educated in the United States, Nguyen has lived in Canada since 2011.