{"product_id":"nguyen-hoa-red-juicepb","title":"Nguyen, Hoa: Red Juice","description":"\u003cp\u003eWave Books, paperback\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublication Date: \u003cspan\u003eSeptember 02, 2014\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublisher Marketing: \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Hoa Nguyen's poems probe dailiness to divorce us from our base assumptions about how language might present the world to us. Her poems comprise some of the most inviting lyrics I've found in a living poet.\"--\u003ci\u003eBookslut\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Phrase by phrase Nguyen's work can be conversational, playful, funny, angry, acutely self-aware, and loaded with sensory information.\"--Anselm Berrigan, from the introduction\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eRed Juice\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003erepresents a decade of poems written roughly between 1998 and 2008, previously only available in small-run handmade chapbooks, journals, and out-of-print books. This collection of early poems by Vietnamese American poet Hoa Nguyen showcases her feminist ecopoetics and unique style, all lyrical in the post-modern tradition.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e[BUDDHA'S EARS ARE DROOPY TOUCH HIS SHOULDERS]\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eBuddha's ears are droopy touch his shoulders\u003cbr\u003eas scarves fly out of windows and I shriek\u003cbr\u003eat the lotus of enlightenment\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eTravel to Free Street past Waco\u003cbr\u003eto the hole in the Earth\u003cbr\u003ewearing water\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eI'm aiming my mouth\u003cbr\u003efor apple pie\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40817265115159,"sku":"9781933517926","price":22.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0004\/6497\/7956\/files\/rjsoft.png?v=1772937835","url":"https:\/\/open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com\/products\/nguyen-hoa-red-juicepb","provider":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","version":"1.0","type":"link"}