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Root Fractures: Poems

By (author) Diana Khoi Nguyen

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*One of LitHub's Poetry Books to Read in 2024* *One of The Millions's Must Read Poetry Books of Winter 2024* National Book Award finalist Diana Khoi Nguyen's second poetry collection, a haunting of a family's past upon its present, and a frank reckoning with how loss and displacement transform mothers and daughters across generations. In Root Fractures, Diana Khoi Nguyen excavates the moments of rupture in a family: a mother who was forced underground after the Fall of Saigon, a father who engineered a new life in California as an immigrant, a brother who cut himself out of every family picture before cutting himself out of their lives entirely. And as new generations of the family come of age, opportunities to begin anew blend with visitations from the past. Through poems of disarming honesty and personal risk, Nguyen examines what takes root after a disaster and how we can make a story out of the broken pieces of our lives. As Terrance Hayes writes, ""'There is nothing that is not music' for this poet. Poetry is found in the gaps, silences, and ruptures of history."" This astonishing second collection renders poetry into an act of kintsugi, embellishing what is broken in a family's legacy so that it can be seen in a new light.

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Normally shipped | Usually dispatched in 3 to 4 weeks as supplier is out of stock
Publisher | Simon & Schuster
Published date | 30 Jan 2024
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Format | Paperback / softback
Pages | 128
Dimensions | 229 x 155 x 2mm (L x W x H)
Weight | 163g
ISBN | 978-1-6680-3130-8
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