Worlds Lost and Found: On the Poetics of Hoa Nguyen
Refugee Worldmaking: Canada and the Afterlives of the Vietnam War
Featuring an editorial by Y-Dang Troeung and a special forum on the Poetics of Hoa Nguyen “Worlds Lost and Found” in Canadian Literature #246
“A Thousand Times You Lose Your Treasure... really opened up for me ways of positioning poetic composition and language around the complex social dynamic of “asking.” The way you enlarge the focus of the interrogative by framing it as genealogical and personal is powerful. As Charles Olson said (somewhere), “the subjective as objective requires correct processing.””