It is easier for a child to focus on one monster, because to know that there are multiple, in varying degrees and numerous places, can be too much to bear for one so small.
Diana Khoi Nguyen, "Đổi Mới" from Root Fractures

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It is easier for a child to focus on one monster, because to know that there are multiple, in varying degrees and numerous places, can be too much to bear for one so small.
Diana Khoi Nguyen, "Đổi Mới" from Root Fractures
What’s the difference between a mirror and a window? You see yourself in one, your ghost in the other.
Diana Khoi Nguyen, "Again" from Root Fractures
Witnessing is a way of listening, and a way of catching what goes unsaid.
Diana Khoi Nguyen, "Notes on the Fractures" from Root Fractures
Sometimes, to love your family you have to become a stranger, dead or alive.
Diana Khoi Nguyen, "Đổi Mới" from Root Fractures
It is through language that colonization quietly takes over one’s imagination.
Diana Khoi Nguyen, "Đổi Mới" from Root Fractures
It doesn’t matter where we go; where there is time, there we will die.
Diana Khoi Nguyen, "Đổi Mới" from Root Fractures
Title: Root Fractures Author: Diana Khoi Nguyen Publication Year: 2024 Publisher: Scribner Genre: poetry
A powerful poetry collection, Diana Khoi Nguyen dives into her roots and the fractures that exist in one’s memory and sense of self. Nguyen focuses on the reverberations of trauma, her brother’s suicide, war, and colonization, a lot of it a reflection on how they impacted her and her family, but she also explores the ways in which these themes also affected the Vietnamese diaspora. I think what was particularly powerful about this collection was the interspersed visual media, some of which are entirely in verse. It was especially impactful to see the words fill the cutout spaces in photos, often that empty space being where her brother should be.
As I’m not Vietnamese, there were some aspects of the poems that I did not fully understand, notably whenever Nguyen wrote explicitly in her language (e.g., the first poem of the collection is entirely in Vietnamese). I did ask a Vietnamese friend for some help with getting through this collection, and their insights were incredibly helpful in contextualizing where Nguyen was coming from.
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