Hoa Nguyen

Hoa Nguyen's latest collection is a poetic meditation on historical, personal, and cultural pressures pre- and post-Fall of Saigon. It 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....