{"product_id":"come-clean-9780299336042","title":"Come Clean","description":"Joshua 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. \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\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\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.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"University of Wisconsin Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50678979297554,"sku":"9780299336042","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_9f6b8d7f-6530-470f-8188-4606757a81af.jpg?v=1733898421","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/come-clean-9780299336042","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}