Nhã Thuyên was born in 1986, in Việt Nam and works as a writer and editor in Hà Nội. Her most recent books are bất\ \tuẫn: những hiện diện [tự-] vắng trong thơ Việt and its English edition: un\ \martyred: [self-]vanishing presences in Vietnamese poetry (Roofbook, 2019) and Moon Fevers (Tilted Axis Press, 2019). Her main practices are writing between languages, experimenting with translations, and poetic exchanges. With Kaitlin Rees, she founded AJAR in 2014, a micro bilingual literary journal-press, a precariously online, printed space for poetic exchange. She otherwise talks to walls and soliloquies nonsense when having no other emergencies of life to deal with. Her next book of poetry vị nước (taste of waters) is waiting to see the moon.
Translation Folio
Spring 2023
Don’t Hide the Madness
betcha it’s closed up already, can tell from way over here, no, keep moving in to see, still a chance it’s open, no, already said, been closed for a while […]