Not Here: Poems (Signed First Edition)

Nguyen, Hieu Minh

ISBN 10: 156689509X / ISBN 13: 9781566895095

Published by Coffee House Press, 2018

About this Item

Minneapolis: Coffee House Press, 2018. First edition. First printing, with full number line including the 1. Paperback original. Illustrated wraps. SIGNED by the author on the title page (name only). Fine condition. A tight clean copy. Octavo, 73 pages, plus notes and acknowledgments. Nguyen s second poetry collection confronts queer identity, intergenerational trauma, and racialized desire through a lens of lyrical vulnerability and formal experimentation. The book features the recurring White Boy Time Machine sequence, as well as standout poems like Notes on Staying, Breakfast, and The Monument, which explore themes of family, longing, and survival. "Not Here" won the 2019 Publishing Triangle Thom Gunn Award for Gay Poetry and was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award for Gay Poetry.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Not Here: Poems (Signed First Edition)
• Publisher: Coffee House Press
• Publication Date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 156689509X
• ISBN 13: 9781566895095
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: As New
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

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Synopsis

Not Here is a flight plan for escape and a map for navigating home; a queer Vietnamese American body in confrontation with whiteness, trauma, family, and nostalgia; and a big beating heart of a book. Nguyen’s poems ache with loneliness and desire and the giddy terrors of allowing yourself to hope for love, and revel in moments of connection achieved.

About the Author

Hieu Minh Nguyen is the author of This Way to the Sugar (Write Bloody Publishing, 2014) and Not Here (Coffee House Press, 2018). Winner of the Thom Gunn Award for Gay Poetry, both of his collections of poetry were also finalists for a Minnesota Book Award and a Lambda Literary Award. In 2019 Hieu was awarded the Wallace Stegner Fellowship from Stanford University. He is also 2018 Ruth Lily and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Fellow, 2018 McKnight Writing Fellow, a Kundiman Fellow, a 2017 National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellow, the recipient of the Minnesota Emerging Writers’ Grant, and an Artist Initiative Grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board. He is a poetry editor for Muzzle Magazine. His work has also appeared or is forthcoming in Poetry Magazine, the New York Times, Best American Poetry, the Academy of American Poets, BuzzFeed, and elsewhere. He lives in Oakland and is a graduate from the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College.