“Forms of attention and assembly”: A Conversation with Hoa Nguyen
Curated by Lisa Olstein for Tupelo Quarterly
“LO: As a medium somewhere between time-based and static, poetry engages temporality in a fascinating range of ways. How does time operate inside this work and across the experience it creates?
HN: I was interested in non linearity and a-chronistic time: time as a process, and time folding over onto itself, obscuring and revealing. One of my practices is to work with tools of chance operations and divinatory systems like the tarot and I Ching as a way to think outside of western constructs of time and connect to improvisational possibility, to read meaning and sign multidimensionally and enact that texture in the space of the poem.”
