Not Here
Hieu Minh Nguyen
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Not Here
Hieu Minh Nguyen
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Not Here will be embraced to anyone who loved Prelude to Bruise —both use narrative biographical poems to address queerness and race, and growing up as a gay person of color in a white supremacist, heteronormative world. These poems are as accessible as Saeed Jones's, and as personal, and should anticipate as much enthusiasm from audiences who might not typically gravitate to poetry.
Hieu's self-effacing, half-abashed vulnerability, and his palpable desire for love and connection (both friend, family, and romantic) make for sincerely moving poetry. It's a rare collection that makes you ache along with the author, and feel invested in his happiness.
Hieu is a hugely successful advocate for his own work, and has a robust career as a touring poet (it's his primary source of income) so both his capacity to support the book with readings and his enthusiastic fan base should set the book up for significant sales, at events and otherwise.
Hieu is part of a cohort of poets (including this season's Justin Phillip Reed) whose work is flush with life and who are making a dynamic case for the continuing relevance of poetry as a form and as a mode of expression and connection.
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Inhaltsverzeichnis
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- White Boy Time Machine: Instruction Manual
- Lesson
- Again, Let Me Tell You What I Know About Trust
- Still, Somehow
- Nguyễn
- Elegy for the First
- White Boy Time Machine: Software
- Type II
- Attending the Party
- Dear X
- The Study
- White Boy Time Machine: Joy Ride
- Again, What Do I Know About Desire?
- Cockfight
- #2
- Again, Let Me Explain Again
- White Boy Time Machine: Return Policy
- Baptism
- Apology, Sort Of
- Probe
- Punish
- Mercy
- White Boy Time Machine: Safety Tips
- B . F . F .
- Pig
- Hosting
- White Boy Time Machine: Override
- Changeling
- Commute
- Ode to the Pubic Hair Stuck in My Throat
- Note
- Politics of an Elegy
- White Boy Time Machine: Error
- The Ranger
- Afterwards
- Reunion
- Heavy
- Monica West Is Moving to Omaha, Nebraska
- Notes on Staying
- Notes
- Acknowledgments
- Funder Acknowledgments
- About the Author