"What our lives permit us to perceive as givens, Nguyen reveals as mere conditions, inextricably tied to and guided by greater forcesfrom the economy to the environment, from the Mayan prediction
"[Nguyen] shares such a streetwise feminism, keeping the edge and making it something you can dance to."?The Poetry ProjectClear-eyed and grounded, Hoa Nguyen performs a hook and snare on what it mean
In her first collection since Red Juice: Poems 1998-2008, Nguyen returns to poems of dailiness and raw humanity. Her language hops and skips, vivid with color, in turn political, ecological, funny, sp
