Poetry at Sangam

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HOA NGUYEN

Born in the Mekong Delta, Hoa Nguyen was raised and educated in the United States and has lived in Canada since 2011. She is the author of several books of poetry including As Long As Trees Last, Red Juice: Poems 1998-2008, and Violet Energy Ingots, which was nominated for 2017 Griffin Poetry Prize. Her forthcoming book, A Thousand Times You Lose Your Treasure, directs poetry toward history, hauntings, and diasporic experiences and includes biographical verse of her mother, who once rode stunt motorcycles in an all-woman Vietnamese circus troupe. A Thousand Times You Lose Your Treasure will be published in April 2021 by Wave Books.

 
 

Poems by Hoa Nguyen

 

ASK ABOUT LANGUAGE AS IF IT FORGETS

LEARNING THE ĐÀN BẦU 

SING DING (GHOSTLY)

MEXICO

from ON “NEW MUSIC” (TÂN NHẠC): NOTES TOWARD A SOCIAL HISTORY OF VIETNAMESE MUSIC IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY 

MOTHER’S RIVER MOON (TRAVELING WITH THE TRAVELING CIRCUS, LOWER MEKONG 1959)

 
 

September 2020