How to Exi(s)t: A Poet's Memoir

A neurodivergent gay war refugee navigates academia, racism, and indeed life itself as a poet, artist, and teacher

How to Exi(s)t: A Poet's Memoir is an experiment in nonlinear autobiography by the author of the American Book Award-winning Book of the Other, Truong Tran. Beginning in the present—at a writing residency in the aftermath of this success—How to Exi(s)t moves back and forth in time, in bursts of brief poetic essays grouped by theme. The duality of the title thematizes a dilemma a...