Nguyen, Kimberly: Here I Am Burn Me

Write Bloody Publishing, paperbackPublication Date: October 17, 2022Publisher Marketing: In this stunningly tender poetry collection, Kimberly Nguyen's lone voice reaches out into the void, extending an invitation to become part of her orbit. Time is an entanglement in Nguyen's poetic galaxy. Past traumas snag the fabric of space and time, twisting the past and present together until they are undistinguishable from one another. Vivid and striking, Nguyen's voice is sharp and precise, a needle that pinpoints time's pulled threads and pulls them back through. Poem after poem, line after line, Nguyen expertly un-entangles the past and present, healing the space-time continuum and thus opens the possibility of a future free from its past wounds. Nothing escapes Nguyen's orbit unscathed. She dissects everything that passes by her and holds them to the light before setting them free. Nguyen confronts intergenerational trauma, a broken family, and her own heartbreak head-on, and she dives in