To Truong, With Love: A reading and celebration of Truong Tran's Book of the Other
Join us for a reading and celebration of poet and visual artist Truong Tran's BOOK OF THE OTHER (Kaya Press), featuring appearances by Mai C. Doan, Dan Lau, Muriel Leung, Amber McCray, London Pinkney, Mimi Tempestt, and Carlos Quinteros III. The evening honors Tran’s tremendous impact as a teacher and artist and will conclude with a special reading from his latest collection.
Truong Tran was born in Saigon, Vietnam. He is the author of six previous collections of poetry, The Book of Perceptions, Placing the Accents, Dust and Conscience, Within The Margins, Four Letter Words and 100 words (co-authored with Damon Potter.) He also authored the children’s book, Going Home Coming Home, an artist monograph, I Meant To Say Please Pass the Sugar. His poems and books have been translated into Spanish, French and Dutch. He is the recipient of The Poetry Center Prize, The Fund For Poetry Grant, The California Arts Council Grant and numerous San Francisco Arts Commission Grants. Truong is also a visual artist who believes that art, be it poetry, cooking, sculpting and even gardening, are his ways of thinking through the conscious of the times we live in. Of the endeavor that is book of the other, Truong says, “This is the hardest thing I’ve ever done. I set out to write a book with the premise and constraint of honesty. It took a decade of struggle to write, to circle back, to say the thing that needed to be said and perhaps another lifetime to hold. This book is not the performance of anger. It is angry. This book is not performing otherness. I am the other or so I am told again and again.” Truong lives in San Francisco and currently teaches at Mills College, Oakland.
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