Description

Book Synopsis
Joshua Nguyen’s sharp, songlike, and often experimental collection compartmentalizes past trauma- sexual and generational - through the quotidian. These poems aim to confront the speaker’s past by physically, and mentally, cleaning up.

Table of Contents
  • Contents
  • Save Me, Marie Kondo
  • March 4th
  • My First Memory
  • Wisconsin Has A Place in My Heart & I Just Want It to Let Go
  • My Marie Kondo Manifesto
  • Father, the Father
  • Washing Rice [American Lục BÁt]
  • My Brother Explains Driving
  • A Dirty Floor in The Key of Elbows
  • Peeling Eggs [American Lục BÁt]
  • Bunk Bed
  • Toast / Butter / Sugar
  • Blessing the House
  • Marie Kondo Is My Hero: A Lesson on Folding Undergarments
  • First Day of School Aubade
  • After I Was Mistaken for the Stripper While Delivering Barbeque to an All-White Bachelorette Party
  • Dim Sum Depression
  • Scratch My Back & I’ll Love You Forever
  • An Argument About Being Needy While Underneath Binary Stars
  • Marie Kondo Is My Hero: A Lesson on Clothing
  • Add Coconut Water [American Lục BÁt]
  • Exhaustion [But Every Time Leela Rose Kisses a Random Asian Man in The Street, A New Stanza Begins & The Amount of Words Between The Boxes Increase By 1]
  • Self-Portrait as The Hand Towel Which Hangs Above The Toilet
  • In the Bathroom After Eating Flaming Hot Cheetos
  • Come Clean
  • I Fall In Love With The Scientist Behind The Mask
  • Speak Quotidian to Me
  • One Night Withstand
  • Funny as Fuck
  • Add Pepper To Taste The Dark [American Lục BÁt]
  • 20 Things To Do Before You Leave The Restaurant Job You Hate
  • Google Calendar for My Imposter Syndrome
  • A Failed American Lục BÁt Responds
  • Last Words [Extended Cento]
  • The Ritual of Mourning Has Changed
  • Vietnamese Bedwetting Stories
  • Thịt Kho
  • In Praise of my Threaded Eyebrows
  • Dicing Garlic [American Lục BÁt]
  • My Father Explains Employment
  • My Mother Explains Universal Healthcare
  • My Cat Doesn’t Grasp Object Permanence
  • Marie Kondo Is My Hero: On Organizing Christmas
  • Ode to My Brother’s V-neck
  • My Sister Listens to ‘Run River North’ For the First Time
  • This Season is My Greenhouse
  • Marinate Using Fish Sauce [American Lục BÁt]
  • I Don’t Trust the Dishwasher
  • Mother, One Day I Will Cook For You [American Lục BÁt]
  • Hoarder
  • Notes
  • Acknowledgments

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      Publisher: MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 11/30/2021 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780299336042, 978-0299336042
      ISBN10: 0299336042

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Joshua Nguyen’s sharp, songlike, and often experimental collection compartmentalizes past trauma- sexual and generational - through the quotidian. These poems aim to confront the speaker’s past by physically, and mentally, cleaning up.

      Table of Contents
      • Contents
      • Save Me, Marie Kondo
      • March 4th
      • My First Memory
      • Wisconsin Has A Place in My Heart & I Just Want It to Let Go
      • My Marie Kondo Manifesto
      • Father, the Father
      • Washing Rice [American Lục BÁt]
      • My Brother Explains Driving
      • A Dirty Floor in The Key of Elbows
      • Peeling Eggs [American Lục BÁt]
      • Bunk Bed
      • Toast / Butter / Sugar
      • Blessing the House
      • Marie Kondo Is My Hero: A Lesson on Folding Undergarments
      • First Day of School Aubade
      • After I Was Mistaken for the Stripper While Delivering Barbeque to an All-White Bachelorette Party
      • Dim Sum Depression
      • Scratch My Back & I’ll Love You Forever
      • An Argument About Being Needy While Underneath Binary Stars
      • Marie Kondo Is My Hero: A Lesson on Clothing
      • Add Coconut Water [American Lục BÁt]
      • Exhaustion [But Every Time Leela Rose Kisses a Random Asian Man in The Street, A New Stanza Begins & The Amount of Words Between The Boxes Increase By 1]
      • Self-Portrait as The Hand Towel Which Hangs Above The Toilet
      • In the Bathroom After Eating Flaming Hot Cheetos
      • Come Clean
      • I Fall In Love With The Scientist Behind The Mask
      • Speak Quotidian to Me
      • One Night Withstand
      • Funny as Fuck
      • Add Pepper To Taste The Dark [American Lục BÁt]
      • 20 Things To Do Before You Leave The Restaurant Job You Hate
      • Google Calendar for My Imposter Syndrome
      • A Failed American Lục BÁt Responds
      • Last Words [Extended Cento]
      • The Ritual of Mourning Has Changed
      • Vietnamese Bedwetting Stories
      • Thịt Kho
      • In Praise of my Threaded Eyebrows
      • Dicing Garlic [American Lục BÁt]
      • My Father Explains Employment
      • My Mother Explains Universal Healthcare
      • My Cat Doesn’t Grasp Object Permanence
      • Marie Kondo Is My Hero: On Organizing Christmas
      • Ode to My Brother’s V-neck
      • My Sister Listens to ‘Run River North’ For the First Time
      • This Season is My Greenhouse
      • Marinate Using Fish Sauce [American Lục BÁt]
      • I Don’t Trust the Dishwasher
      • Mother, One Day I Will Cook For You [American Lục BÁt]
      • Hoarder
      • Notes
      • Acknowledgments

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