Speaking Skin by Sabine Huynh, translated by Charlotte Mandell Available from Black Square Editions (April 2025): https://www.blacksquareeditions.org/books/p/speakingskin The dense texts in Speaking Skin—small squares, like beds, or jewel caskets—explore the intimacy of language: the book begins with the narrator having lost her voice, her language, as well as her connection to her own body; gradually […]
Prendre la mer – 60 sonnets pour les Boat People
Prendre la mer – 60 sonnets pour les Boat People / Setting Sail – 60 Sonnets for the Boat People, éditions Bruno Doucey, coll. « L’autre langue », parution : mai 2024. Édition bilingue français anglais. Traduction en anglais américain par Amy Hollowell. The In-Between Spaces: An Interview with Sabine Huynh: Over the summer of 2024, Sabine […]
Finally
Finally, we are free walking under the sun the ordinary has become luminous on a country road lined with trenches— where are we? France, Vietnam, Cambodia?— pairs of rubber gloves are lined up on their lips turquoise blue, fuschia pink yellow dots on black, water green neatly laid one on top of the other like […]
Despite
Despite the heart-wrenching news I told myself, In spring you must believe. You no longer know if it’s tears or rain Pouring down the window panes. Resurrection? Just a word As empty as the tomb. Angels Have no humour, not being familiar with Bedroom frolics and the pungent Whiffs of lovely haired pineapple Lilies. Despite […]
Listen to the wind and know
This morning, immediately upon waking from a dream, I wrote a poem, about the distance between us I guess. I gave it to Jennifer K Dick’s friendly Self-Quarantine Lines blog. And I included a photo I took today on my balcony of my old bamboo wind chimes, hung in the small pomegranate tree.
Into the Turning
Into the Turning – Emptyfull Poetry / Dans le tournant – Poésie du rienplein Poems by Amy Hollowell and Sabine Huynh (in English and French). Book written during a writing residency at the Factorie / Maison de Poésie in Normandy (France, April 2019), around the notions of Buddhism and Zen such as Amy Hollowell and […]