Not Here: Poems
By Hieu Minh Nguyen
120 pages
Nguyen's gorgeously raw lyricism reveals a man in between:
navigating gentleness and fury; love and war; his own desires and "the
lace-white landscape" of his mother's; and Saigon and Minneapolis, where "my
grief / is a foreign currency," where "white folks this far north
either under-spice or over-spice their food like they're overcompensating for
history."
— Michelle Hart
