{"product_id":"nguyen-hieu-minh-staying-stpb","title":"[09\/01\/26] Nguyen, Hieu Minh: Staying Still","description":"\u003cp\u003eTin House, paperback\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublication Date: September 1, 2026\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublisher Marketing:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eStegner and NEA Fellow Hieu Minh Nguyen's visionary poetry collection about generational loneliness, desire, and longing.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"I am in the passenger seat heading wherever this poet wants to take me.\" --Danez Smith\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe highly anticipated follow-up to the award-winning poetry collection \u003ci\u003eNot Here\u003c\/i\u003e, Hieu Minh Nguyen's \u003ci\u003eStaying Still\u003c\/i\u003e centers on the question of \u003ci\u003ehow\u003c\/i\u003e How do our anxieties around the idea of belonging estrange us from the very world we seek to belong in? How impossible does it feel to stay still and face ourselves? From the intimate longing of queer boyhood to the collective expectations imposed upon children of refugees, these poems face head-on the rejections, grief, and violence we fear in fractured family dynamics, love, and desire as we search for our place in this world.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45143458316311,"sku":"9781638934707","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0004\/6497\/7956\/files\/71cIiSp-GYL._SL1500.jpg?v=1780528145","url":"https:\/\/open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com\/products\/nguyen-hieu-minh-staying-stpb","provider":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","version":"1.0","type":"link"}