{"product_id":"red-juice-poems-1998-2008-paperback","title":"Red Juice: Poems 1998-2008 - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eHoa Nguyen\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eAnselm Berrigan\u003c\/b\u003e (Introduction by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"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.\"--\u003ci\u003eBookslut\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"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\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eRed Juice\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e[BUDDHA'S EARS ARE DROOPY TOUCH HIS SHOULDERS]\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eBuddha's ears are droopy touch his shoulders\u003cbr\u003eas scarves fly out of windows and I shriek\u003cbr\u003eat the lotus of enlightenment\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eTravel to Free Street past Waco\u003cbr\u003eto the hole in the Earth\u003cbr\u003ewearing water\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eI'm aiming my mouth\u003cbr\u003efor apple pie\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBorn in the Mekong Delta and raised in the Washington, DC, area, \u003cb\u003eHoa Nguyen\u003c\/b\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHoa Nguyen\u003c\/strong\u003e is the author of several books of poetry, including \u003cem\u003eAs Long As Trees Last\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eRed Juice\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eViolet Energy Ingots\u003c\/em\u003e, which received a 2017 Griffin Prize nomination. As a public proponent and advocate of contemporary poetry, she has served as guest editor for \u003cem\u003eThe Best Canadian Poetry in English 2018\u003c\/em\u003e and judge for the 2020 Griffin Prize for Poetry, and she has performed and lectured at numerous institutions, including Princeton University, Bard College, Poet's House, and the Banff Centre's Writers Studio. Recipient of a 2019 Pushcart Prize and a 2020 Neustadt International Prize for Literature nomination, she has received grants and fellowships from the Canada Council for the Arts, the Ontario Arts Council, the MacDowell Colony, and the Millay Colony for the Arts. Her writing has garnered attention from such outlets as The PBS News Hour, \u003cem\u003eGranta\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Walrus\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003ePoetry\u003c\/em\u003e, among others. Born in the Mekong Delta and raised and educated in the United States, Nguyen has lived in Canada since 2011.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 272\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.8 x 7.9 x 5.2 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 02, 2014\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51769949225248,"sku":"9781933517926","price":22.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/98b4bdec1d21f99295c4197667345faa.webp?v=1780360627","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/red-juice-poems-1998-2008-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}