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Violet Energy Ingots
Hoa Nguyen
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Description for Violet Energy Ingots
Paperback. Poems of loss, rage, love, and what endures. Num Pages: 104 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 140 x 10. Weight in Grams: 171.
"What our lives permit us to perceive as givens, Nguyen reveals as mere conditions, inextricably tied to and guided by greater forces--from the economy to the environment, from the Mayan predictions to the menstrual cycle, from the weight of history to the burden of the future." --Michael Brodeur, The Boston Globe The poems in Violet Energy Ingots contain a sense of dis-ease, rupture, things frayed, and grief--as love shimmers the edges. Ryo Yamaguchi describes Nguyen's writing as "a kind of stuttering with intelligences, impressions, and emotions flaring up as the words find their pathways." As grounded in the earth ... Read more
"What our lives permit us to perceive as givens, Nguyen reveals as mere conditions, inextricably tied to and guided by greater forces--from the economy to the environment, from the Mayan predictions to the menstrual cycle, from the weight of history to the burden of the future." --Michael Brodeur, The Boston Globe The poems in Violet Energy Ingots contain a sense of dis-ease, rupture, things frayed, and grief--as love shimmers the edges. Ryo Yamaguchi describes Nguyen's writing as "a kind of stuttering with intelligences, impressions, and emotions flaring up as the words find their pathways." As grounded in the earth ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Wave Books United States
Number of pages
104
Condition
New
Number of Pages
104
Place of Publication
Seattle, United States
ISBN
9781940696348
SKU
V9781940696348
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About Hoa Nguyen
Born in the Mekong Delta and raised in the Washington, D.C. area, Hoa Nguyen studied Poetics at New College of California in San Francisco. With the poet Dale Smith, Nguyen founded Skanky Possum, a poetry journal and book imprint in Austin, TX, their home of 14 years. She is the author of several poetry collections, most recently Red Juice: Poems ... Read more
Reviews for Violet Energy Ingots
"What our lives permit us to perceive as givens, Nguyen reveals as mere conditions, inextricably tied to and guided by greater forces
from the economy to the environment, from the Mayan predictions to the menstrual cycle, from the weight of history to the burden of the future."
Michael Brodeur, The Boston Globe "Hoa Nguyen's poems probe dailiness to divorce us from ... Read more
from the economy to the environment, from the Mayan predictions to the menstrual cycle, from the weight of history to the burden of the future."
Michael Brodeur, The Boston Globe "Hoa Nguyen's poems probe dailiness to divorce us from ... Read more