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    Not Here

    By Hieu Nguyen

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    About this ebook

    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.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCoffee House Press
    Release dateApr 10, 2018
    ISBN9781566895194
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    • 5/5
      Brutal and brilliant poems that bear repeated reading. Loved it.
    • 5/5
      I am the only one awake yet I no longer feel alone.
    • 4/5
      The actual poetry collection is excellent. It is beautiful and thought provoking. However, it had been added to Scribd in a weird way and some of the poems are missing words for this reason and can be hard to read.

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