{"product_id":"come-clean-joshua-nguyen-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\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Joshua Nguyen\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0299336042\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780299336042\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Wisconsin Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/30\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 96\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.45lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.80h x 6.90w x 0.40d","brand":"Joshua Nguyen","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44050049958143,"sku":"9780299336042","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_b858f013-def3-450c-b55e-a9006d8d674a.jpg?v=1685004915","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/come-clean-joshua-nguyen-9780299336042","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}