A Thousand Times You Lose Your Treasure Spierliederen

A Thousand Times You Lose Your Treasure SpierliederenHoa Nguyen Hoa Nguyen's latest collection is a poetic meditation on historical, personal, and cultural pressures pre and post "Fall of Saigon" and comprises a verse biography on her mother, Diep Anh Nguyen, a stunt motorcyclist in an all woman Vietnamese circus troupe. Multilayered, plaintive, and provocative, the poems in A Thousand Times You Lose Your Treasure are alive with archive and inhabit histories. In turns lyrical and unsettling, her poetry

and improvisation

Interviews Hester van Hasselt

Mei-mei Berssenbrugge & Kiki Smith

and One does so

Reading BOSCH'D I think of Stevens' precept that 'the poem must resist the intelligence almost successfully

a lie spread across low-rent apartment complexes

to be thus transformed

Heather Clark

Ashbery's work difficult

Anselm Hollo and Gerard Malanga

Met gedichten over oma's en opa's

Mia You attempts to build a vocabulary for attending to and grieving both living and non-living things without reinforcing modern valorizations of individual property and personhood