Vi Khi Nao. Nightboat (UPNE, dist.), $15.95 trade paper (80p) ISBN 978-1-937658-48-9
Fiction writer Nao (Swans in Half-Mourning), winner of the 2014 Nightboat Poetry Prize, makes her poetry debut with a sexually raw collection that sparkles with unexpected imagery, as if “a conflicting/ Mixture of lavender and walleye.” The book is...
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Vi Khi Nao. Coffee House (Consortium, dist.), $16.95 trade paper (208p) ISBN 978-1-56689-449-4
Nao’s (The Old Philosopher) probing, wrenching novel follows a married couple after the deaths of their two children. Two years following the deaths, husband Ethos and wife Catholic have drifted apart: Catholic is sleeping with the couple’s neighbor,
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Vi Khi Nao. Black Sun Lit, $16 trade paper (152p) ISBN 978-0-9994312-2-1
Nao (Umbilical Hospital) bases this brilliant procedural work of short prose blocks on individual still frames of Leslie Thornton’s eponymous video installation of sheep feeding in a Swiss alpine field. In much the same way that the original artwork
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Vi Khi Nao. Melville House, $18.99 trade paper (192p) ISBN 978-1-68589-130-5
Nao (Swimming with Dead Stars) delivers an incisive epistolary novel about a Vietnamese American writer’s economic hardship and queer desire. The unnamed narrator, who’s broke and desperate after losing her bid for a professorship, writes, but does...
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