Susan Nguyen

Dear Diaspora (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

Outstanding Achievement Award in Poetry from the Association for Asian American Studies New Mexico-Arizona Book Award Winner Julie Suk Award FinalistDear Diaspora is an unapologetic reckoning with history, memory, and grief. Parting the weeds on a small American town, this collection sheds light on the intersections of girlhood and diaspora. The poems introduce us to Suzi: ripping her leg hairs out with duct tape, praying for ecstasy during Sunday mass, dreaming up a language for buried familial trauma and discovering that such a language may not exist. Through a collage of lyric, documentary, and epistolary poems, we follow Suzi as she untangles intergenerational grief and her father's disappearance while climbing trees to stare at the color green and wishing that she wore Lucy Liu's freckles. Winner of the Raz/Shumaker Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry, Dear Diaspora scrutinizes our turning away from the trauma of our past and our complicity in its erasure. Suzi, caught between enjoying a rundown American adolescence and living with the inheritances of war, attempts to unravel her own inherited grief as she explores the multiplicities of identity and selfhood against the backdrop of the Vietnamese diaspora. In its deliberate interweaving of voices, Dear Diaspora explores Suzi's journey while bringing to light other incarnations of the refugee experience.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Nebraska
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781496229274
• Artikelnr.: 72457651

Autorenporträt

Susan Nguyen received her MFA in poetry from Arizona State University. Her work has appeared in Tin House, Diagram, and other publications.

Inhaltsangabe

The Body as a Series of Questions:  
 
 
The First Language Suzi with an i Suzi’s Mother Does Nails Letter to the Diaspora The Last Time She Saw Him Cicada Summer Beast Angel If I Say My Body Is Grieving Wish List Letter to the Diaspora You Google Vietnam Charlie’s Angels HAGS What Suzi Believes Grief as a Question:  
 
 
The Boat People  
 
 
Smooth Jazz 105.9 Ode to Hunger Dream of Double Letter to the Diaspora Suzi Doesn’t Miss Her Father You Google Vietnam Questions I’ve Never Asked My Father Suzi Grows Older Suzi Searches for Ecstasy Sitting Down with Grief Inventory She Doesn’t Know about the War Times Most Noble, Heroic, and Virgin Lady You Google Vietnam Letter to the Diaspora Suzi as a Series of Questions: In a Past Life Unending Acknowledgments Source Acknowledgments