On Deep Reading the Poetic Works of Vietnamese Writer Nhã Thuyên
Saigoneer Trigger Open studio In Hanoi, seven years ago, I remember waiting for cool days in the sunny October heat. I had visited an open-studio art exhibition in Zone 9, the short-lived creative art hub. The artists were welcoming and patient. They put up with my questions. I had planned to write about the exhibition so I stayed in touch with the curator, a well-known Vietnamese contemporary artist. Days later, he told me, “There’s someone you should meet.” This was how I met Kaitlin Rees, an American poet and translator. Later, she told me, you have to read this. Prose poems, poet...
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