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Not Here
Not Here | Hieu Nguyen
14 posts | 13 read | 10 to read
Not Here is a flight plan for escape and a map for navigating home; a queer Vietnamese American body in confrontation with whiteness, trauma, family, and nostalgia; and a big beating heart of a book. Nguyen�s poems ache with loneliness (…more)
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lil1inblue
Not Here | Hieu Minh Nguyen
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TheSpineView I like the feeling this one invokes. Great find! 4mo
Leftcoastzen Wow , really like this one 4mo
lil1inblue @Leftcoastzen It was very relatable! 4mo
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dabbe
Not Here | Hieu Minh Nguyen
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dabbe @lil1inblue 💚💙💚 4mo
TheSpineView I like this poem. As I said earlier, I like the feeling/mood of the poem. 4mo
dabbe @TheSpineView 🩶🖤🩶 4mo
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peanutnine
Not Here | Hieu Minh Nguyen
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I don't read a lot of poetry, and I know a lot of this probably went over my head. But I still found this collection to be so moving. The sadness and longing leaks off the page. He writes about his experience as a gay Vietnamese man and the rejection and otherness he has felt from each facet of his life. A beautiful examination of trauma.
But definitely check the TW: sexual assault, child abuse, suicidal thoughts, homophobia, racism

peanutnine #LGBTQ2023 not your usual genre @Kenyazero
#Nonfiction2023 I still haven't found what I'm looking for @Riveted_Reader_Melissa
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Bigfoot
Not Here | Hieu Nguyen
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Sapphic adventure story. I loved this book. There were points where the story went really quick but then there were parts where the story dragged. All in all it was an amazing story. I love Goose with my whole heart
4.5⭐️

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Bigfoot
Not Here | Hieu Nguyen
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Such a cool premise.
Hockey player and figure skater hook up once and there entire world goes haywire.
My favourite line in this book is 100%
“Nathan Hawkins is a man who was most definitely written by a woman”
Yes that line resides somewhere in the book.
4.5⭐️

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Kerrbearlib
Not Here | Hieu Minh Nguyen
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Love his poems

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tamaria
Not Here | Hieu Nguyen
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🔥

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amb
Not Here | Hieu Minh Nguyen
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I‘d like to get some opinions, as part of my #ReadHarder challenge I am to read an #ownvoices book set in Oceania. I am reading a book called The Glass Jar written by a man who grew up in a Methodist orphanage in Auckland about boys growing up in a Methodist orphanage in Auckland. It is not in the database here or on GoodReads. But did show up in other places. Does this count as #ownvoices? Or do you think they mean indigenous people of Oceania?

MelissaSue81 I think it counts as #ownvoices. It only says “set in Oceania” .. not specifically about indigenous people. NYPL even has Bridge of Clay listed as a book for that, and there is nothing specific about those characters other than living in Australia 6y
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RhiannonAdmidas
Not Here | Hieu Minh Nguyen
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Hieu Minh Nguyen was stunning.

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Alicia
Not Here | Hieu Minh Nguyen
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When you discover the poetry section at the library... !!! I‘m trying to get back into poetry because I have so many wonderful collections and I feel it‘s such a wonderful and important way to express oneself. Excited for these!

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elizabethlk
Not Here | Hieu Minh Nguyen
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An excellent poetry collection. Nguyen's use of form and language worked really well. I especially connected with his poems addressing depression and the ones addressing language, but all of them were quality work. Recommended.

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sakeriver
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It‘s strange to feel in reading a book of poems that it is both life-affirming and cynical, but that‘s how this feels to me. A lot in this is about the ways we hurt each other, the ways that life may not be worth the effort, about the struggle to convince yourself to continue. Yet in the depth of their honesty, there‘s something kind of comforting about these poems as well. A recognition, I suppose, that someone else also has had these feelings.

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sakeriver
Not Here | Hieu Minh Nguyen
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There‘s a lot going on in this poem. I kinda love it.

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sakeriver
Not Here | Hieu Minh Nguyen
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Starting this today.