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A thousand times you lose your treasure, Hoa Nguyen

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Summary
  • "A new collection of poetry by Hoa Nguyen"--
  • A poetic meditation on historical, personal, and cultural pressures pre- and post-"Fall-of-Saigon" with verse biography on the poet's mother, Dịêp Anh Nguŷẽn, 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. --
Language
eng
Work
Publication
Edition
First edition.
Extent
118 pages
Contents
  • Seeds and crumbs
  • Ask about language as if It forgets
  • Naming assembles you
  • "Language points"
  • Autonomous song
  • We run on trash grass
  • The flying motorist artist
  • Red she broke the cup
  • Netting (Language Ghost)
  • Napalm notes
  • Learning the Dan Bau
  • Diep before completion
  • Less than slash three
  • Tryouts for the flying motorist artist team, 1958
  • German tightrope acrobat group paid a visit to the Vietnamese hung viet female flying motorist artist group
  • Tones in the Vietnamese language
  • Mud matrix
  • Why this haunted middle and door Hung with haunted girl bones
  • from vogue magazine 1970
  • Sing ding (Ghostly)
  • Vietnam ghost story: high school clock tower
  • Revenge poem
  • Red shoes girl song
  • from on "New Music" (Tan Nhac): notes toward a social history of vietnamese music in the twentieth century
  • Crow pheasant
  • Exercise 14
  • Oxbow lake
  • Mother's river moon (Traveling with the traveling circus, lower mekong, 1959)
  • Notes on operation hades
  • Mexico
  • Warm rain
  • Feast of the first morning of the first day
  • Last letter
  • Durian sonnet
  • Dang you then a dang
  • Unrelated future tense
  • Scooby-doo villain ghoul method a.k.a US military psychological operation "wandering soul"
  • Hagiography
  • Can't write white and asian
  • Spoken through the cracked eye
  • Overseas Vietnamese
  • Thoi the fragments (current affairs)
  • Offering for souls
  • Vietnam ghost story: da lat lovers
  • Fortune cookie no forture
  • "O my 4fh planes" (Cries of Johnson: a folk opera)
  • Transplant
  • Shock fate
  • 2nd letter
  • Sacred ficus sonnet
  • Failed tower ca dao
  • Cold sore lip red coat
  • Vietnam ghost story: towers of district 5
  • She leads with flower wands
  • Made by dow
  • Viewed from 2020
  • Heartlessness
  • We sing to
  • Sings the wishing well (the ghost well cared-for)
  • Hung viet
Isbn
9781950268177
Instance
Label
A thousand times you lose your treasure
Title
A thousand times you lose your treasure
Statement of responsibility
Hoa Nguyen
Creator
Author
Subject
Genre
Language
eng
Summary
  • "A new collection of poetry by Hoa Nguyen"--
  • A poetic meditation on historical, personal, and cultural pressures pre- and post-"Fall-of-Saigon" with verse biography on the poet's mother, Dịêp Anh Nguŷẽn, 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. --
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DLC
http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
1967-
http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
Nguyen, Hoa
Illustrations
illustrations
Index
no index present
Literary form
poetry
Nature of contents
bibliography
Series statement
Wave books
Series volume
090
http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
  • American poetry
  • POETRY / American / Asian American
  • POETRY / Subjects & Themes / Family
  • POETRY / Women Authors
  • POETRY / Diversity & Multicultural
  • American poetry
Label
A thousand times you lose your treasure, Hoa Nguyen
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Publication
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
Seeds and crumbs -- Ask about language as if It forgets -- Naming assembles you -- "Language points" -- Autonomous song -- We run on trash grass -- The flying motorist artist -- Red she broke the cup -- Netting (Language Ghost) -- Napalm notes -- Learning the Dan Bau -- Diep before completion -- Less than slash three -- Tryouts for the flying motorist artist team, 1958 -- German tightrope acrobat group paid a visit to the Vietnamese hung viet female flying motorist artist group -- Tones in the Vietnamese language -- Mud matrix -- Why this haunted middle and door Hung with haunted girl bones -- from vogue magazine 1970 -- Sing ding (Ghostly) -- Vietnam ghost story: high school clock tower -- Revenge poem -- Red shoes girl song -- from on "New Music" (Tan Nhac): notes toward a social history of vietnamese music in the twentieth century -- Crow pheasant -- Exercise 14 -- Oxbow lake -- Mother's river moon (Traveling with the traveling circus, lower mekong, 1959) -- Notes on operation hades -- Mexico -- Warm rain -- Feast of the first morning of the first day -- Last letter -- Durian sonnet -- Dang you then a dang -- Unrelated future tense -- Scooby-doo villain ghoul method a.k.a US military psychological operation "wandering soul" -- Hagiography -- Can't write white and asian -- Spoken through the cracked eye -- Overseas Vietnamese -- Thoi the fragments (current affairs) -- Offering for souls -- Vietnam ghost story: da lat lovers -- Fortune cookie no forture -- "O my 4fh planes" (Cries of Johnson: a folk opera) -- Transplant -- Shock fate -- 2nd letter -- Sacred ficus sonnet -- Failed tower ca dao -- Cold sore lip red coat -- Vietnam ghost story: towers of district 5 -- She leads with flower wands -- Made by dow -- Viewed from 2020 -- Heartlessness -- We sing to -- Sings the wishing well (the ghost well cared-for) -- Hung viet
Control code
1191457153
Dimensions
22 cm
Edition
First edition.
Extent
118 pages
Isbn
9781950268177
Lccn
2020038254
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
Note
WorldCat record variable field(s) change: 505, 520
Other control number
40030495177
Other physical details
illustrations
System control number
(OCoLC)1191457153
Label
A thousand times you lose your treasure, Hoa Nguyen
Publication
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
Seeds and crumbs -- Ask about language as if It forgets -- Naming assembles you -- "Language points" -- Autonomous song -- We run on trash grass -- The flying motorist artist -- Red she broke the cup -- Netting (Language Ghost) -- Napalm notes -- Learning the Dan Bau -- Diep before completion -- Less than slash three -- Tryouts for the flying motorist artist team, 1958 -- German tightrope acrobat group paid a visit to the Vietnamese hung viet female flying motorist artist group -- Tones in the Vietnamese language -- Mud matrix -- Why this haunted middle and door Hung with haunted girl bones -- from vogue magazine 1970 -- Sing ding (Ghostly) -- Vietnam ghost story: high school clock tower -- Revenge poem -- Red shoes girl song -- from on "New Music" (Tan Nhac): notes toward a social history of vietnamese music in the twentieth century -- Crow pheasant -- Exercise 14 -- Oxbow lake -- Mother's river moon (Traveling with the traveling circus, lower mekong, 1959) -- Notes on operation hades -- Mexico -- Warm rain -- Feast of the first morning of the first day -- Last letter -- Durian sonnet -- Dang you then a dang -- Unrelated future tense -- Scooby-doo villain ghoul method a.k.a US military psychological operation "wandering soul" -- Hagiography -- Can't write white and asian -- Spoken through the cracked eye -- Overseas Vietnamese -- Thoi the fragments (current affairs) -- Offering for souls -- Vietnam ghost story: da lat lovers -- Fortune cookie no forture -- "O my 4fh planes" (Cries of Johnson: a folk opera) -- Transplant -- Shock fate -- 2nd letter -- Sacred ficus sonnet -- Failed tower ca dao -- Cold sore lip red coat -- Vietnam ghost story: towers of district 5 -- She leads with flower wands -- Made by dow -- Viewed from 2020 -- Heartlessness -- We sing to -- Sings the wishing well (the ghost well cared-for) -- Hung viet
Control code
1191457153
Dimensions
22 cm
Edition
First edition.
Extent
118 pages
Isbn
9781950268177
Lccn
2020038254
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
Note
WorldCat record variable field(s) change: 505, 520
Other control number
40030495177
Other physical details
illustrations
System control number
(OCoLC)1191457153

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