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    A Plucked Zither
    A Plucked Zither
    A Plucked Zither
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    A Plucked Zither

    By Phuong T. Vuong

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    • WINNER of the Benjamin Saltman Poetry Award!
    • COURSE ADOPTION POTENTIAL for university courses on Asian American studies and critical refugee studies.
    • MULTI-TALENTED ARTIST: poet, scholar, visual artists, and educator.
    • FOR FANS of Ocean Vuong, Cathy Park Hoang, and Hoa Nguyen.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRed Hen Press
    Release dateJun 6, 2023
    ISBN9781636280967
    A Plucked Zither
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    Phuong T. Vuong

    Phuong T. Vuong cannot stop thinking about language, memory, and migration. She has been awarded fellowships from Tin House, VONA/Voices, and Kearny Street Workshop’s Interdisciplinary Writers Lab. Her publications have appeared in American Poetry Review, Best American Poetry, Kenyon Review Online, Asian American Writers' Workshop: The Margins, and elsewhere. Her interviews and reviews have been published in journals like The Rumpus and The Adroit Journal. In 2019, her debut poetry collection, The House I Inherit, was published by Finishing Line Press and explores intergenerational trauma and forms of diasporic love. Hailing from Oakland, by way of Hue, Viet Nam, Phuong is currently a PhD student in Literature and a James K. Binder Fellow at the University of California, San Diego, situated on Kumeyaay land. She researches Asian American feminism and is probably drinking Earl Grey tea right this second. Twitter and Instagram: @writephuong

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      A Plucked Zither - Phuong T. Vuong

      A Plucked Zither

      Copyright © 2023 by Phuong T. Vuong

      All Rights Reserved

      No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without the prior written permission of both the publisher and the copyright owner.

      Book design by Mark E. Cull

      Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

      Names: Vuong, Phuong T., 1987– author.

      Title: A plucked zither: poems / Phuong T. Vuong.

      Description: First edition. | Pasadena, CA: Red Hen Press, [2023]

      Identifiers: LCCN 2022044671 (print) | LCCN 2022044672 (ebook) | ISBN 9781636280950 (paperback) | ISBN 9781636280967 (ebook)

      Subjects: LCGFT: Poetry.

      Classification: LCC PS3622.U97 P59 2023 (print) | LCC PS3622.U97 (ebook) | DDC 811/.6—dc23/eng/20220915

      LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2022044671

      LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2022044672

      Publication of this book has been made possible in part through the generous financial support of Ann Beman.

      The National Endowment for the Arts, the Los Angeles County Arts Commission, the Ahmanson Foundation, the Dwight Stuart Youth Fund, the Max Factor Family Foundation, the Pasadena Tournament of Roses Foundation, the Pasadena Arts & Culture Commission and the City of Pasadena Cultural Affairs Division, the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs, the Audrey & Sydney Irmas Charitable Foundation, the Meta & George Rosenberg Foundation, the Albert and Elaine Borchard Foundation, the Adams Family Foundation, Amazon Literary Partnership, the Sam Francis Foundation, and the Mara W. Breech Foundation partially support Red Hen Press.

      First Edition

      Published by Red Hen Press

      www.redhen.org

      Acknowledgments

      Many thanks to the editors and readers of the journals where these poems originally appeared.

      American Poetry Review: Trịnh Công Sơn’s Children, Traversence; Apogee: Home-cooking; Black Warrior Review: Natural Melancholia; Crazyhorse: In My Afterlife, I Am Brightest, A Repeating Distance; Duende: Country of Origin; Hayden’s Ferry Review: If Language is a Metaphor Between Sound and Meaning, Grandmother Says: New Theorems; Juked: Exception, Bà Nội, She Will Rest at Sea; The Margins (Asian American Writers’ Workshop): Immigrant’s Lament, Migration’s Undoing; Moonroot Zine: Ode to Sweet Potato Greens; Prairie Schooner: This is the Dream; Puerto del Sol: Familiar Logic, In the Canals of Thought, Legacy / Inheritance / Fortune / Gia tài; Wildness: Reacquaintances.

      For my grandparents whom I get to know, after. I trace a line to you.

      Thank you to my parents who make music in their own ways. It reverberates. Thank you for sharing Trịnh Công Sơn’s work with me.

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