On Hoa Nguyen’s A Thousand Times You Lose Your Treasure
“Her writing’s concision, its general lack of narrative, its refusal of standard forms, its gaps and pauses are all ways of interrupting the flow of experience and, more importantly, the conventions and directives—the normative ideologies—embedded within this flow…”
Hoa Nguyen reads two poems
Hoa Nguyen, 2021 Poetry Nat. Book Award Finalist, reads from A THOUSAND TIMES YOU LOSE YOUR TREASURE
“A running leap at the song”
"Nguyen fuses the wide array of voices inhabiting the poems to offer them a sense of rootedness, embodied being and choral harmony at home in the confluent waters of language."
“Forms of attention and assembly”: A Conversation with Hoa Nguyen
“I was interested in non linearity and a-chronistic time: time as a process, and time folding over onto itself, obscuring and revealing… “
On Hoa Nguyen’s A Thousand Times You Lose Your Treasure
“Nguyen’s fragmentary counter-narrative both addresses and eludes recent histories of Vietnam, which like all wars doesn’t end when it stops. “—Alan Gilbert on Hoa Nguyen’s A Thousand Times You Lose Your Treasure in Brooklyn Rail Books
Hoa Nguyen and the Singing of Loss
“Why try/to revive the lyric” : on Hoa Nguyen’s use of song across her work and in her book A Thousand Times You Lose Your Treasure