Not Here

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By Hieu Minh Nguyen

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Not Here is a poignant collection of poetry by Hieu Minh Nguyen that explores a queer Vietnamese American identity struggling with whiteness, trauma, family, and nostalgia. The poems delve into themes of loneliness, desire, and the delicate balance of hope and connection, offering both a flight plan for escape and a map for navigating home.
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Ideal for readers interested in contemporary poetry that addresses queer identity, cultural heritage, and social issues with emotional depth and lyrical power.

Being queer and Asian American; families we are born into and ones we chose; nostalgia, trauma and history-all dissected fearlessly.

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Not Here is a flight plan for escape and a map for navigating home; a queer Vietnamese American body in confrontation with whiteness, trauma, family, and nostalgia; and a big beating heart of a book.

Nguyen's poems ache with loneliness and desire and the giddy terrors of allowing yourself to hope for love, and revel in moments of connection achieved.

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Winner of the Publishing Triangle Thom Gunn Award in Gay Poetry and finalist for the Lambda Literary Award and Minnesota Book Award, this acclaimed collection has been praised for its tenderness and bravery. NBC News highlights Nguyen's skill in balancing humour and trauma, while Publisher's Weekly notes the courageous exorcism of shame confronting the complexities of living as a queer person of colour. The Adroit Journal commends the striking juxtapositions throughout, calling Nguyen’s work exceptional.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781566895095

Publisher: Coffee House Press

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 10 April 2018

Country: United States

Imprint: Coffee House Press

Illustration: Illustrations

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 152.0mm

Height: 228.0mm

Weight: 250g

Pages: 120

Collections

Arts & Culture Hieu Minh Nguyen LGBTQ+ LGBTQ+ Romance Non-Fiction Poetry

About the Author

Hieu Minh Nguyen is the author of This Way to the Sugar (Write Bloody Publishing, 2014) and Not Here (Coffee House Press, 2018). Winner of the Thom Gunn Award for Gay Poetry, both of his collections of poetry were also finalists for a Minnesota Book Award and a Lambda Literary Award. In 2019 Hieu was awarded the Wallace Stegner Fellowship from Stanford University. He is also 2018 Ruth Lily and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Fellow, 2018 McKnight Writing Fellow, a Kundiman Fellow, a 2017 National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellow, the recipient of the Minnesota Emerging Writers' Grant, and an Artist Initiative Grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board. He is a poetry editor for Muzzle Magazine. His work has also appeared or is forthcoming in Poetry Magazine, the New York Times, Best American Poetry, the Academy of American Poets, BuzzFeed, and elsewhere. He lives in Oakland and is a graduate from the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College.