A Thousand Times You Lose Your Treasure

By: Hoa Nguyen

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Paperback | 20 January 2021

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144 Pages

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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.

Industry Reviews

"I come back to Hoa Nguyen's poems all the time and every single time I find a new world of meaning" -Gabrielle Calvocoressi, PEN America

Nguyen remains one of the most powerful, vivid, and even visceral contemporary poets working today. -Dan Shewan, The Rumpus

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