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As Long As Trees Last
by
Hoa Nguyen
"[Nguyen] shares such a streetwise feminism, keeping the edge and making it something you can dance to."—The Poetry Project
Clear-eyed and grounded, Hoa Nguyen performs a hook and snare on what it means to be a twenty-first century human in the nearly ego-less space of these chiseled yet spacious poems.
It's not a time to run
I wear soft shoes
and it took a long time
to walk he...more
Clear-eyed and grounded, Hoa Nguyen performs a hook and snare on what it means to be a twenty-first century human in the nearly ego-less space of these chiseled yet spacious poems.
It's not a time to run
I wear soft shoes
and it took a long time
to walk he...more
Paperback, 88 pages
Published
September 4th 2012
by Wave Books
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I had never read any of Hoa Nguyen's poetry before, and I am very glad to have encountered her work through this giveaway. Her poetic style is right up my alley--I love small, spare, intense poems, the kind that seem to be crafted with a carving knife. The title of the book is excellent, a title that would definitely draw my hand to pull this book off of a bookshelf, were I to encounter it in a bookstore or in someone else's library. And...more
I had never read any of Hoa Nguyen's poetry before, and I am very glad to have encountered her work through this giveaway. Her poetic style is right up my alley--I love small, spare, intense poems, the kind that seem to be crafted with a carving knife. The title of the book is excellent, a title that would definitely draw my hand to pull this book off of a bookshelf, were I to encounter it in a bookstore or in someone else's library. And...more
Peril. And love. This book is a perfect example of exactly why we write poems at all.
This collection just wasn't my cup of tea. I really liked a few of them, but most of them, not so much.
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Hoa Nguyen was born in the Mekong Delta, grew up in the DC area and studied poetics in San Francisco. She is the author of 8 books and chapbooks, most recently Hecate Lochia (Hot Whiskey, 2009), Kiss a Bomb Tattoo (Effing Press, 2009) and Chinaberry (Fact Simile, 2010). Based in Austin, TX, Hoa curates a reading series and leads a creative writing workshop.
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