Join us in celebrating the launch of Hoa Nguyen’s new poetry collection, A Thousand Times You Lose Your Treasure. Hoa will be joined by Roberto Tejada, author of the poetry collections Full Foreground (Arizona, 2012), Exposition Park (Wesleyan, 2010), and Mirrors for Gold (Krupskaya, 2006). This event will take place via Zoom.
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Multilayered, plaintive, and provocative, the poems in A Thousand Times You Lose Your Treasure are 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.
Hoa Nguyen is the author of several books of poetry including Red Juice: Poems 1998-2008 and Violet Energy Ingots. With the poet Dale Smith, she published the small press magazine and book imprint Skanky Possum from Austin Texas, her home of fourteen years. Her latest from Wave Books, A Thousand Times You Lose Your Treasure, is a poetic narrative of historical, personal, and cultural pressures pre- and post-“Fall-of-Saigon” and includes a verse biography of the poet’s mother who once was a member of an all-women motorcycle circus troupe. Born in Vinh Long and raised and educated in the US, Hoa has lived in Toronto since 2011.
Roberto Tejada is the author of poetry collections Full Foreground (Arizona, 2012), Exposition Park (Wesleyan, 2010), Mirrors for Gold (Krupskaya, 2006), selected poems in Spanish translation, Todo en el ahora (Libros Magenta, 2015), and a Latinx poetics of the Americas, Still Nowhere in an Empty Vastness (Noemi, 2019). He founded and co-edited the journal Mandorla: New Writing from the Americas, a multilingual annual of poetry and translation (1991-2014). He is also the author of art histories that include National Camera: Photography and Mexico’s Image Environment (Minnesota, 2009), Celia Alvarez Muñoz (Minnesota, 2009), and Allora & Calzadilla: Specters of Noon (Yale, 2020) He is the Hugh Roy and Lillie Cranz Cullen Distinguished Professor in Creative Writing and Art History at the University of Houston.
Please RSVP to becky@malvernbooks.com for Zoom info. You can also watch this reading live on our YouTube channel.