The Daily Glance
Hoa Nguyen's Your Ancient See Through works through a play of individual thoughts and the big ideas. By that I mean that Nguyen's poems often feel like a thinking through of the ideas of the world's great religious texts without specifically mentioning religion. The rhythm is a type of staccato, and the poems are mostly short.
we are complicating
patterns. destiny
is a big room. we talk
like jets missing
home: a view of sky as a child
a cotton diorama.
Interspersed throughout the text are drawing, and the drawings have a similar quality to the poems.
What we don't know supports what
we know we don't know
anything
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