Conversation
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“Pink Is Raw”: A Conversation with Luu Dieu Van
SYDNEY VAN TO Mar 29, 2023 Deputy editor Sydney Van To talks to Luu Dieu Van about female sexuality, Vietnamese Communism, and the act of self-winding. Luu Dieu Van’s poetry collection She, Self-Winding is out now by Ugly Duckling Presse. Original interview was published on diaCRITICS: https://dvan.org/2023/03/pink-is-raw-a-conversation-with-luu-dieu-van/ Sydney Van To: How did you get into writing poetry?…
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Reviews of She, Self-Winding
Lưu Diệu Vân’s poetry asserts the feminine self within time. The poet winds her own clock. She, Self-Winding, the title of her fourth collection, reflects the tensions between public and private, tradition and renewal, past and present, hardcore pragmatism and poignant romanticism. It also reflects on history, and histories, of war and immigration. The narrative compression, mysterious…
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“M of December” Press Release
What does M stand for? Why December? These are among the many questions that will occupy your curiosity upon reading my new poetry collection, and though poetry is wide open for the readers’ most personal interpretation, I believe the answers will unravel for you, perhaps right away, mid-way, or endways, like a ball of yarn that Mrs.…
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The Doppelgänger of Translation
I have always enjoyed the art of translation, especially when the language I am trying to decipher is perplexing intellectual poetry. Searching for that Doppelgänger of the two languages – Vietnamese & English – is like hunting for that childhood friend you’d lost during the exodus of growing up — you no longer remember the…
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