Strom, Dao: Mình Sẽ Luôn Là Người Đến Từ Nơi Nọ / You Will Always Be Someone From Somewhere Else

Mình Sẽ Luôn Là Người Đến Từ Nơi Nọ / You Will Always Be Someone From Somewhere Else by Dao Strom. Translated by Ly Thuy Nguyen (AJAR, paperback) Publication Date: September 1, 2018 Publisher Marketing: Poetry. Literary Nonfiction. Asian & Asian American Studies. Art. Bilingual Edition. Dao Strom's YOU WILL ALWAYS BE SOMEONE FROM SOMEWHERE ELSE, translated by Ly Thuy Nguyen as Mình sẽ luôn là người nọ đến từ nơi nọ, is a collection and is a re-collection, a "re-membering". Caressing the fault lines of history and self, the book locates fragments and rubs them into their own wholeness. As when a camera lens zooms in, images of "memory's memories" come into focus as story. And as the lens continues to zoom, the story ruptures back into words, punctuation, slices drifting in empty space. And you are aware that you are implicated, that your act of reading is involved in the continuation and the erasure of memories that do not "belong" to you, as mythologies are created, as ech