Memorial matthew rana Hoa Nguyen's latest collection is

Hoa Nguyen's latest collection is a poetic meditation on historical

the artist leads the reader through his investigations into crimes that are heard but not seen

a poet rebuilding her 'Soul House'

" – Erín Moure

Memorial matthew rana Hoa Nguyen's latest collection isAlice Oswald Matthew Arnold praised the "Iliad" for its 'nobility', as has everyone ever since but ancient critics praised it for its enargeia, its 'bright unbearable reality' (the word used when gods come to earth not in disguise but as themselves). To retrieve the poem's energy, Alice Oswald has stripped away its story, and her account focuses by turns on Homer's extended similes and on the brief 'biographies' of the minor war dead, most of whom are