
Violet Energy Ingots
Hoa Nguyen(Author)
Wave Books (Publisher)
Will be published approx. on 22. September 2016
Book
Hardback
104 pages
978-1-940696-35-5 (ISBN)
Description
"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 as in the stars, her poems are reminders of the possibilities of contemplation in every space and moment. A Brief History of War And what if Jupiter is your faith a balloon but I call you by the improper names I'm stained by the world here To be brave and endure the losing To be brave and be the losing Luck Brutal Born in the Mekong Delta and raised in the Washington, DC 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 for fourteen years. She is the author of several poetry collections, most recently Red Juice: Poems 1998-2008 and As Long as Trees Last. She lives in Toronto, Ontario where she curates a reading series and teaches poetics privately and at Ryerson University.
With the poet Dale Smith, Nguyen founded Skanky Possum, a poetry journal and book imprint in Austin, TX, their home for fourteen years. She is the author of several poetry collections, most recently Red Juice: Poems 1998-2008 and As Long as Trees Last. She lives in Toronto, Ontario where she curates a reading series and teaches poetics privately and at Ryerson University.
Reviews / Votes
"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 our base assumptions about how language might present the world to us. Her poems are also funny, and they strangely develop their own language games which comprise some of the most inviting lyrics I've found in a living poet." --Joshua Marie Wilkinson, Bookslut "[Hoa Nguyen's poems] impart a sense of how one might look at the various parts of a life and let them speak out without settling into simple dichotomies." --American Poets "Nguyen makes poetry that sticks in the heart and the craw, and she deserves to be widely and aggressively read." --Seth Abramson, Huffington Post "Nguyen remains one of the most powerful, vivid, and even visceral contemporary poets working today." --Dan Shewan, The Rumpus "[I]n her spare, wry way she's such a careful observer that the reader feels immersed in life's most quotidian details, its hurts, and rocky hopes." --Barbara Hoffert, Library JournalMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
Seattle
United States
Product notice
Cloth over boards
Illustrations
Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 228 mm
Width: 139 mm
Weight
283 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-940696-35-5 (9781940696355)
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Schweitzer Classification
Person
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 1998-2008 and As Long as Trees Last. She lives in Toronto, Ontario where she curates a reading series and teaches poetics privately and at Ryerson University.
Content
AUTUMN 2012 POEM
DEAR LOVE NOT AS A SLAVE,
MEKONG I
HAUNTED SONNET
A BRIEF HISTORY OF WAR
HEADLESS OR HEAD
WHO WAS ANDREW JACKSON?
A SEPTEMBER ELEVENTH POEM
SCREAMING
BIRTHDAY POEM
PHARAOH NOTES
WEEK OF WORDS
HOW THE SUN SHIVERS
AFTER SONNET 117
POEM OF FIRST LINES FROM JACK SPICER POEMS
STRUMMER
MEANT TO
SOME, VISITING
JANUARY
THREAD CORD
HAWK CHASED BY BLACKBIRDS
TOWER SONNET
MACHIAVELLI NOTES
DIANA WAS THE MOON
BLOUSY GUITAR
DIGRESSIVE PARENTHESIS
I DIDN'T KNOW
PS:
FIRST FLOWERS
THE WHITEBOARD
ORPHEUS POEM
LOCUST TREE NOTES (EAST TORONTO)
MY GREEN
I AM TOO
EAT VIOLETS
ANGEL GOING POW
MOAN & LOW
SHE SAILS (SPRING)
POEM OF FIRST LINES FROM TAGORE POEMS
HID
DO I PLUNGE
SUNFLOWER GUARDIANS
SPARROW AGAIN
BLOODLANDS
ARTIFACTS FROM THE "UNEARTHLY CAVE" NAMED
"THE PLACE WHERE THE MAN WAS KILLED BY THE BULL"
AFTER THE MURDER BALLAD
TO SEEK
EVE
COPPER
DREAM IN OCTOBER
ME THAT
THE DIFFERENCE IS VELOCITY
FOR LOVE RED
RED VOICE
OWL
TORN
YOU
SONNET FOR MIMIR'S HEAD
AFTER THE SONG
AND
LEAVE
DEAR LOVE NOT AS A SLAVE,
MEKONG I
HAUNTED SONNET
A BRIEF HISTORY OF WAR
HEADLESS OR HEAD
WHO WAS ANDREW JACKSON?
A SEPTEMBER ELEVENTH POEM
SCREAMING
BIRTHDAY POEM
PHARAOH NOTES
WEEK OF WORDS
HOW THE SUN SHIVERS
AFTER SONNET 117
POEM OF FIRST LINES FROM JACK SPICER POEMS
STRUMMER
MEANT TO
SOME, VISITING
JANUARY
THREAD CORD
HAWK CHASED BY BLACKBIRDS
TOWER SONNET
MACHIAVELLI NOTES
DIANA WAS THE MOON
BLOUSY GUITAR
DIGRESSIVE PARENTHESIS
I DIDN'T KNOW
PS:
FIRST FLOWERS
THE WHITEBOARD
ORPHEUS POEM
LOCUST TREE NOTES (EAST TORONTO)
MY GREEN
I AM TOO
EAT VIOLETS
ANGEL GOING POW
MOAN & LOW
SHE SAILS (SPRING)
POEM OF FIRST LINES FROM TAGORE POEMS
HID
DO I PLUNGE
SUNFLOWER GUARDIANS
SPARROW AGAIN
BLOODLANDS
ARTIFACTS FROM THE "UNEARTHLY CAVE" NAMED
"THE PLACE WHERE THE MAN WAS KILLED BY THE BULL"
AFTER THE MURDER BALLAD
TO SEEK
EVE
COPPER
DREAM IN OCTOBER
ME THAT
THE DIFFERENCE IS VELOCITY
FOR LOVE RED
RED VOICE
OWL
TORN
YOU
SONNET FOR MIMIR'S HEAD
AFTER THE SONG
AND
LEAVE