A Thousand Times You Lose Your Treasure

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.

Author: Hoa Nguyen
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Wave Books
Published: 04/06/2021
Pages: 144
Weight: 0.45lbs
Size: 8.00h x 6.00w x 0.50d
ISBN: 9781950268177


Award: National Book Awards - Finalist