Red Juice: Poems 1998-2008

Hoa Nguyen will be present and giving readings at AWP in February, 2014. Co-op available. Advertising will appear in Bookforum. Poems from this book have been published in several journals, including The Los Angeles Review of Books, PEN America, Poets.org, The Brooklyn Rail, The Chicago Review, FENCE, Pleiades, The Colorado Review, and the LA Review. We will work for features, interviews, reviews, and excerpts in Jacket2, The Rumpus, HTMLGiant, Bookworm, The Poetry Project, Coldfront, Publishers Weekly, The Believer, Bookslut, Bookforum, etc. We will promote this book on Hoa Nguyen's author page, through social media such as Facebook and Twitter, and on our homepage. Nguyen is an active self-promoter on her Facebook and website: http://www.hoa-nguyen.com

A collection of early poems, rare or out-of-print, by Hoa Nguyen, a poet who tersely cracks the shell of dailiness."Hoa Nguyen's poems probe dailiness to divorce us from our base assumptions about how language might present the world to us. Her poems comprise some of the most inviting lyrics I've found in a living poet."--Bookslut "Phrase by phrase Nguyen's work can be conversational, playful, funny, angry, acutely self-aware, and loaded with sensory information."--Anselm Berrigan, from the introduction Red Juice represents a decade of poems written roughly between 1998 and 2008, previously only available in small-run handmade chapbooks, journals, and out-of-print books. This collection of early poems by Vietnamese American poet Hoa Nguyen showcases her feminist ecopoetics and unique style, all lyrical in the post-modern tradition. [BUDDHA'S EARS ARE DROOPY TOUCH HIS SHOULDERS] Buddha's ears are droopy touch his shoulders as scarves fly out of windows and I shriek at the lotus of enlightenment Travel to Free Street past Waco to the hole in the Earth wearing water I'm aiming my mouth for apple pie 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. She is the author of eight poetry books and chapbooks and lives in Toronto, Ontario, where she teaches poetics at Ryerson University and curates a reading series.