A Thousand Times You Lose Your Treasure

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Price
$35.00  $32.55
Publisher
Wave Books
Publish Date
Pages
144
Dimensions
5.9 X 8.0 X 0.3 inches | 0.5 pounds
Language
English
Type
Hardcover
EAN/UPC
9781950268184

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About the Author

Hoa Nguyen is the author of several books of poetry, including A Thousand Times You Lose Your Treasure (Wave, forthcoming 2021), As Long As Trees Last, Red Juice, and Violet Energy Ingots, which received a 2017 Griffin Prize nomination. As a public proponent and advocate of contemporary poetry, she has served as guest editor for The Best Canadian Poetry in English 2018 and judge for the 2020 Griffin Prize for Poetry, and she has performed and lectured at numerous institutions, including Princeton University, Bard College, Poet's House, and the Banff Centre's Writers Studio. Recipient of a 2019 Pushcart Prize and a 2020 Neustadt International Prize for Literature nomination, she has received grants and fellowships from the Canada Council for the Arts, the Ontario Arts Council, the MacDowell, and the Millay Colony for the Arts. Her writing has garnered attention from such outlets as The PBS News Hour, Granta, The Walrus, New York Times, and Poetry, among others. Born in the Mekong Delta and raised and educated in the United States, Nguyen has lived in Canada since 2011.

Reviews

Nguyen remains one of the most powerful, vivid, and even visceral contemporary poets working today. --Dan Shewan, The Rumpus


I come back to Hoa Nguyen's poems all the time and every single time I find a new world of meaning --Gabrielle Calvocoressi, PEN America