{"product_id":"nha-thuyen-words-breathe-creatures-of-elsewhere","title":"Nhã Thuyên, words breathe, creatures of elsewhere","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"page\" title=\"Page 118\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"layoutArea\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"column\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"page\" title=\"Page 2\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"layoutArea\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"column\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eFor Nhã Thuyên, to write poetry is to listen to the lives of words, to sense their heartbeats, to admire their faces. It is an action that is passionate, overflowing, and at the same time, insecure and restless. In Nhã Thuyên’s understanding, the word, as an alive being, is easily vulnerable.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"page\" title=\"Page 2\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"layoutArea\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"column\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eNhã Thuyên’s poetry is that of one who thrusts herself into an infinite confusion, who doubts the inevitability of every border, who wonders at the clarity of structures. The confusion, doubts, and wonders inside this collection of poetry, are in fact what transform into a great pleasure for the writer, and which in turn, unfurl into a pleasure for the readers, inviting them to play together in the space of uncertainty, confusion, ambiguity, among the drifting words, rhythms, and imaginings. \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"section\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"layoutArea\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"column\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eNhã Thuyên’s poetry is also that of one who feels a forever urge to disintegrate the self, to break apart the solidity of the self, to be able to see the strangers, the other beings in the dark depths of the self. Nhã Thuyên is listening closely with an acute desire to be in conversation with the creatures of elsewhere, the others. A craving as innocently eager as a child, curious and full of amazed energy, while at the same time as painfully urgent as a person who feels the eternal uncertainty of identity. A craving that, in the end, gives poetry itself a possibility to stir the human heart. For after all, can poetry be anything if not this exposure? \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e– H\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eả\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ei Ng\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eọ\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ec, literary critic\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNhã Thuyên\u003c\/strong\u003e (born 1986) has authored several books of poetry and short fiction including \u003cem\u003eWriting\u003c\/em\u003e (2008), \u003cem\u003eThe Pinky\u003c\/em\u003e (2011), \u003cem\u003eThe edge of the Abyss\u003c\/em\u003e (2011), \u003cem\u003eThe Transparent green of grass\u003c\/em\u003e (co-authored, 2012) and some \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003etiny books for children. Her series of essays, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cem\u003eUnderground Voices\u003c\/em\u003e (2011- 2013), sponsored by the Arts Network Asia, examines marginalization in Vietnamese contemporary poetry and the avant-garde poets of its Post-Renovation period. Translations of her poetry and writing appear in \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/vagabondpress.net\/collections\/asia-pacific-writing\/products\/poems-of-luu-dieuvan-luu-melan-nha-thuyen\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cem\u003ePoems of Lưu Diệu Vân, Lưu Mêlan \u0026amp; Nhã Thuyên\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan\u003eedited and introduced \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eby Nguyễn Tiên Hoàng (Vagabond Press, 2013) and have appeared \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eor are forthcoming in the journals of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eRHINO Poetry \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eand Asymptote. words breathe, creatures of elsewhere (\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003etừ thở, những người lạ\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e) is her second full length book of poetry and her first full length book in english translation. Nhã Thuyên is co-editor of the book of three poets \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/vagabondpress.net\/collections\/asia-pacific-writing\/products\/poems-of-le-van-tai-nguy-n-ton-hi-t-phan-qu-nh-tram\"\u003e\u003cem\u003ePoems \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"#temp_created_link\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eof Lê Văn Tài, Nguyễn Tôn Hiệt, \u0026amp; Phan Quỳnh Trâm \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan\u003e(Vagabond Press, 2015). With Kaitlin Rees, she currently co-edits \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAJAR\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, a bilingual literary \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eand art journal-press based in Hanoi, an online, printed space for poetic \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eexchange. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eKaitlin Rees\u003c\/strong\u003e (translator), born in the year of the buffalo in Wampsville, New york, translates Vietnamese poetry and makes her own in english sometimes \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003etoo. Her translations of Nhã Thuyên’s work have appeared in Vagabond \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePress’s 2013 \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePoems of Lưu Diệu Vân, Lưu Mêlan \u0026amp; Nhã Thuyên edited and introduced by Nguyễn Tiên Hoàng and the online journal \u003cem\u003eMasque\u0026amp;Spectacle\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, and are forthcoming in \u003cem\u003eAsymptote\u003c\/em\u003e. Kaitlin co-edits Ajar \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ein Hanoi with Nhã Thuyên. Her artwork of poetry called \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFragments of an Infinite Dictionary will have an exhibition in December 2015 in \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eZalaegerszeg, Hungary.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"column\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eNhã Thuyên, \u003cem\u003ewords breathe, creatures of elsewhere\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"column\"\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003e2015. ISBN 978-1-922181-40-4. \u003c\/span\u003e118pp\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"column\"\u003eRelease date: January 1, 2016\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003ciframe style=\"width:550px;height:350px\" src=\"https:\/\/online.anyflip.com\/wuapt\/lrjq\/index.html\" seamless=\"seamless\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowtransparency=\"true\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e","brand":"Vagabond Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":12884472708,"sku":"","price":25.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0182\/8349\/products\/NhaThuyen_front_cover.jpg?v=1451354883","url":"https:\/\/vagabondpress.net\/fr\/products\/nha-thuyen-words-breathe-creatures-of-elsewhere","provider":"Vagabond Press","version":"1.0","type":"link"}