{"product_id":"come-clean-paperback","title":"Come Clean - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJoshua Nguyen\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJoshua Nguyen's sharp, songlike, and often experimental collection compartmentalizes past trauma--sexual and generational--through the quotidian. Poems aim to confront the speaker's past by physically, and mentally, cleaning up. Here, the Asian-American masculine interrogates the domestic space through the sensual and finds healing through family and in everyday rhythms: rinsing rice until the water runs clear, folding clean shirts, and attempts at re-creating an unwritten family recipe. Yet past wounds remain present like permanent marker under layers of paint or spilled fish sauce set into car upholstery. Infused with the Shinto-inspired organizing practices of KonMari and the catchy nihilism of Mitski's songs, the poems in \u003ci\u003eCome Clean\u003c\/i\u003e unpack, organize, and tidy up life's messy joys and hurtful chaos with intimacy, grace, and vulnerability. \u003cbr\u003e No matter how smattered my insides, I am relieved that I left my room tidy-- \u003cbr\u003e One less ugly sight. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e I always wanted to die clean \u0026amp; pretty \u003cbr\u003e while my dreams made music in the night.--Excerpt from \"Last Words\"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eJoshua Nguyen is the author of \u003ci\u003eCome Clean\u003c\/i\u003e (University of Wisconsin Press), winner of the 2021 Felix Pollak Prize in Poetry, and the chapbook, \"American Lục Bát for My Mother\" (Bull City Press, 2021). He is a Vietnamese-American writer, a collegiate national poetry slam champion (CUPSI), and a native Houstonian. He is a PhD student at The University of Mississippi, where he also received his MFA.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 96\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.4 x 8.8 x 6.9 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 30, 2021\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42698839687231,"sku":"9780299336042","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/37dc0421f9a75f8dbabdc1d12e65be6e.webp?v=1765011518","url":"https:\/\/dhl-adrianne.myshopify.com\/products\/come-clean-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}