Words on forthcoming Wave book
As Long As Trees Last by Hoa NguyenRelease Date: September 1, 2012
It’s not a time to runI wear soft shoesand it took a long timeto walk hereGrounded in the present tense—in the dailiness of politics and domesticity, citizenship and femaleness—Nguyen’s loose, everyday language performs a hook and snare on the ungraspable reality of 21st century America. In the nearly ego-less space of these chiseled yet spacious poems, an extraordinarily clear-eyed poet claims her stakes.