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A Thousand Times You Lose Your Treasure
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Author: Hoa Nguyen
Publisher: Wave Books (2021)
Format: Paperback
Condition: New
ISBN: 9781950268177
Finalist for the 2021 National Book Award
Winner of the Canada Book Award
A poetic meditation on historical, personal, and cultural pressures pre- and post-“Fall-of-Saigon” with verse biography on the poet's mother, Diệp Anh Nguyễn, a stunt motorcyclist in an all-women Vietnamese circus troupe. Multilayered, plaintive, and provocative, the poems in A Thousand Times You Lose Your Treasure are alive with archive and inhabit histories. By turns lyrical and unsettling, Hoa Nguyen's poetry sings of language and loss; dialogues with time, myth and place; and communes with past and future ghosts.