ARGONAUT BOOKS

This collection is an unapologetic reckoning with history, memory, and grief. It explores the intersections of girlhood, identity and selfhood against the backdrop of the Vietnamese diaspora. Reviews The first poem of Nguyen's powerful debut asks: "At the center of your calamity, what grows?" That question serves as an entry point for poems that interweave grief, exodus, and girlhood... Nguyen's poetry reveals a remarkable embrace of complexity while accounting for the difficulties of complicity, witness, and forgiveness. -Publishers Weekly Starred ReviewThe collecti...Read More