This Way to the Sugar by Hieu Minh Nyugen
Hieu Minh Nguyen's poignant collection of poems, This Way to the Sugar, fearlessly examined nostalgia, tradition, race, apology, and sexuality under the blade and microscope of scrutiny, seeking beauty in an imperfect world.Praised as "an astounding testament to the power and necessity of confession," Nguyen's work goes deep into the complexities of forgiveness, contemplating whether it's wiser to leave the blade within or let forgiveness bleed one thin.
The words resonate with power and emotion, inviting readers to explore the intricate tapestry of human experiences.
Hieu Minh Nguyen is the author of This Way to the Sugar (Write Bloody Publishing, 2014) and Not Here (Coffee House Press, 2018). Winner of the Thom Gunn Award for Gay Poetry, both of his collections of poetry were also finalists for a Minnesota Book Award and a Lambda Literary Award. In 2019 Hieu was awarded the Wallace Stegner Fellowship from Stanford University. He is also 2018 Ruth Lily and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Fellow, 2018 McKnight Writing Fellow, a Kundiman Fellow, a 2017 National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellow, the recipient of the Minnesota Emerging Writers' Grant, and an Artist Initiative Grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board. He is a poetry editor for Muzzle Magazine. His work has also appeared or is forthcoming in Poetry Magazine, the New York Times, Best American Poetry, the Academy of American Poets, BuzzFeed, and elsewhere. He lives in Oakland and is a graduate from the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781938912443 |
| ISBN 10 | 1938912446 |
| Title | This Way to the Sugar |
| Author | Hieu Minh Nyugen |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Write Bloody Publishing |
| Year published | 2014-03-18 |
| Number of pages | 100 |
| Prizes | Commended for Lambda Literary Awards (Gay Poetry) 2015, Commended for Minnesota Book Award (Poetry) 2015 |
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