Memorial Park, Nguyen, Minh Vegan to young women live alone

to young women live alone who rent their homes

"Compulsively readable

the uncanny specters of translingual

runaway supernormalisation

translating the works of twenty-nine Song Dynasty poets

Memorial Park, Nguyen, Minh Vegan to young women live aloneFifty years after the Fall of Saigon and twenty years after her familys emigration to America, Minh Nguyen returns to her native Vietnam to find out whats left of the old revolutionary project. In Memorial Park, a collection of essays pairing travelogue and criticism, Nguyen encounters relics of proletarian romance and vestiges of authoritarian control amid an evermore corporatized society. Along the way, she considers how contemporary artspeak