A Thousand Times You Lose Your Treasure

A Thousand Times You Lose Your TreasureDescription Reviews Finalist for the 2021 National Book Award Finalist for the 2022 Kingsley Tufts AwardWinner of the Canada Book Award A poetic meditation on historical, personal, and cultural pressures pre and post Fall of Saigon with verse biography on the poet's mother, Dip Anh Nguyn, a stunt motorcyclist in an all women Vietnamese circus troupe. Multilayered, plaintive, and provocative, the poems in A Thousand Times You Lose Your Treasure are

Publication Date: June 4

which in turn gives way to dreamscape narrative

” In the spirit of friendship

Benjamin Bush

The rewards across the three volumes in concert manifest not only through the cumulative effects of evidentiary fragmentation collaged in documents and reflections and photographs

It wasn’t until the next morning it dawned on me what I’d written was Reverse Rapture’s prologue

There is little likeness between the collaborative poems and the work Beckman and Rohrer have published separately

darkly funny and frank and tender

All these things appear in The To Sound’s beautifully warped cosmology

or  “red inside green stem below eight white petals in a spiral with space between them attached to the yellow center”—into mesmerizing trajectories through an always unfolding present

Myles has often included

Publication month: February 2023