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
“Ghost Diplomat”
Hoa Nguyen on photographs, her mother's past with the motorcycle circus, and the quiet ways to talk to ghosts. A conversation with Helena de Groot on the Poetry Foundation.
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.
“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."
“Forms of attention and assembly”: A Conversation with Hoa Nguyen
“I was interested in non linearity and a-chronistic time: time as a process, and time folding over onto itself, obscuring and revealing… “
On Hoa Nguyen’s A Thousand Times You Lose Your Treasure
“Nguyen’s fragmentary counter-narrative both addresses and eludes recent histories of Vietnam, which like all wars doesn’t end when it stops. “—Alan Gilbert on Hoa Nguyen’s A Thousand Times You Lose Your Treasure in Brooklyn Rail Books