A Thousand Times You Lose Your Treasure

Apoetic meditation on historical, personal, and cultural pressures pre- and post-"Fall-of-Saigon"withverse biography onthe poet's mother,DipAnhNguyn, a stunt motorcyclist in an all-women Vietnamese circus troupe. Multilayered, plaintive, and provocative, the poems inA Thousand Times You Lose Your Treasureare 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. (From Wave Poetry)

A Thousand Times You Lose Your Treasurewas onthe shortlist for the 2021 Governor General's Literary Award for poetry.

HoaNguyen is the author of several books of poetry, includingAs Long As Trees LastandViolet Energy Ingots, which was a finalist for the 2017 Griffin Poetry Prize.Born in the Mekong Delta, Vietnam, Nguyen was raised and educated in the United States. She has lived in Canada since 2011.

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