On Poetry, Personal History, and Writing A Thousand Times You Lose Your Treasure: an Interview

An in-depth interview with Hoa Nguyen by Albert Flynn DeSilver

“…that place of betweenness or association between languages —between song and poetry, between storytelling and singing, between Vietnamese folk songs and Johnny Cash—those places of meetings were important for me”

—Hoa Nguyen on her “origin story” in terms of poetry and where that began