How to Exi(s)t

• Utgivningsdatum: 2026-12-03
• Mått: 139 x 203 x 6 mm
• Vikt: 272 g
• Format: Häftad
• Språk: Engelska
• Antal sidor: 240
• Förlag: City Lights Books
• ISBN: 9780872869493

• Självbiografi: författare och journalister
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Truong Tran is a poet, visual artist, and teacher born in Saigon, Vietnam. His books include Book of the Other: Small in Comparison, winner of the American Book Award, The Book of Perceptions, Placing the Accents, Dust and Conscience, Within the Margins, Four Letter Words, 100 words, Looking and Seeing/Seeing and Looking, the children's book Going Home Coming Home, and an artist monograph, I Meant To Say Please Past the Sugar. He is the recipient of the Poetry Center Prize, the Fund for Poetry Grant, the California Arts Council Grant, and numerous San Francisco Arts Commission Grants. Truong is also a visual artist who believes that art, be it poetry, cooking, sculpting, or even gardening,  is his way of thinking through the conscience of the times we live in. Truong teaches at Northeastern University, Oakland and lives in San Francisco.

"Embrace the honesty, cherish the humor, hold onto Tran's flame, and be brave enough to swim in the pain of existence in this powerful new memoir."—Lou Fancher, 48 Hills"Vietnamese American poet and visual artist Tran (Book of the Other) examines racism, queer history, and his own life in this striking nonlinear account."—Publishers Weekly"Tran's prose speaks directly to the reader and offers opinions and perspectives that are superbly barbed and lushly poetic all at once. . . . A wise, reflective self-portrait shimmering with genuine emotion and bracing honesty."—Kirkus Reviews"A book about everything, and everything in addition to everything. To read it felt like sitting at a noodle house with a friend I've just met, and one I've known forever, listening to story after story until the lights go out and the owner tells us that we must be on our way. A gift of a collection; a marvel of words."—Esmé Weijun Wang, author of The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays"Poets need this book. Everyone needs it as we face 'the impossibility of being human. ' (Yes, poets might need it especially.) You may not be a Vietnamese refugee kid struggling through English and dyslexia, silence and shame, poverty and racism, toward queer clarity, generosity and brilliance, but you have your issues and your deal. In this book of essays, I'm amazed at how Truong Tran wields the hammered honesty of prose to break silence and unknowing into cascades of specific truths—truth being understanding that allows you to survive."—Sesshu Foster, author of Atomik Aztex "How to Exi(s)t: A Poet's Memoir by Truong Tran is a lifelong meditation and lesson on how to put down anger. Through language, through laughter, through memory, through reflection, and through radical acceptance. Not many poets can and have survived in america for over 30 years with a conscious up-leveling of their craft and insight. Not many poets can even claim they've sustained their careers in america without being consumed by the flames of anger and live to tell the tale. Tran, with his incisive wisdom, teaches us, shows us, models for us exactly how. In his memoir, he bares to us his burns and lesions. He examines his callouses and scars. He returns to us in this new work, victorious but contemplative. Most importantly, he returns. With all his stories on life. on life. on life. on life, and all its intricate complexities. He reminds us that being the victor is not just about overcoming, but allowing oneself the permission to tell the story about our anger without guilt, pity, victimhood or shame."—mimi tempestt, author of The Delicacy of Embracing Spirals

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