Review of Nguyen’s Treasure in Canadian Literature
Neil Surkan reviews three books of poetry including A Thousand Times You Lose Your Treasure in “Welcome Refreshment” for Canadian Literature
Graphic Review on Rhino
“Lodestar and Time Machine”: A Graphic review of A Thousand Times You Lose Your Treasure by Luisa A. Igloria in Rhino Magazine.
from A Thousand Micro Reviews
“A Thousand Micro Reviews” on A Thousand Times You Lose Your Treasure composed in the spirit of the She Who Has No Masters collective by students of Vi Khi Nao’s course “Studies in Poetry: Contemporary Vietnamese Poets” at the University of Colorado Boulder
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”. Canadian Literature #246.
On Hoa Nguyen’s A Thousand Times You Lose Your Treasure
“Her writing’s concision, its general lack of narrative, its refusal of standard forms, its gaps and pauses are all ways of interrupting the flow of experience and, more importantly, the conventions and directives—the normative ideologies—embedded within this flow…”
“A running leap at the song”
"Nguyen fuses the wide array of voices inhabiting the poems to offer them a sense of rootedness, embodied being and choral harmony at home in the confluent waters of language."