within the margin by Truong Tran [in AsianWeek]
30 Jun, by in Adult Readers, Poetry, Repost, Vietnamese American
A beautifully produced collection of intertwined poems that have more margin than print – although it’s the sparseness, that which is not written, that lingers.
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