{"product_id":"9781933517926","title":"Red Juice: Poems 1998-2008","description":"\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 wearing 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\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wave Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47056917201136,"sku":"9781933517926","price":22.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781933517926_p0.jpg?v=1763641147","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781933517926","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}