Vague Blue
terry nguyenA critic's notebook. Dispatches on art, literature, culture, etc.
| Platform |  | Pricing | Freemium | Publishes | Weekly |
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| Issues | 40 | Founded | 7 years ago | Last Issue | 2 months ago |
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Memorial Park
Minh Nguyen’s Memorial Park: Revisiting Vietnam (2025) is a collection of critical essays on Vietnamese culture and art—an itinerant travelogue that is also an attempt at “find[ing] out what’s left of the revolution.” Nguyen emigrated to th...
waiting for :: writing through
“We line one day up after the other, day after day, as if the world did not exist, though daily it seeks us out with such violence.” —Édouard Glissant, Poetics of Relation
There is a viral photobooth that I often pass on my mid-afternoon w...
Memory
No doorways, just places to move between. The ocean smiles open for a picture, much less willingly with words. A picture smiles a moment but when a human is present the moment becomes strained with pretense, a contamination. Somewhere betwe...
Crisis of Mystery
A still from Jean Cocteau’s La Villa Santo-Sospir: “…since being a poet means publicly confiding one’s secrets…”
THERE IS A LINE from Elizabeth Bishop’s Art of Poetry interview that often makes the rounds on Instagram: “There’s nothing mor...
Between silence and scream
“We are born with a scream; we come into life with a scream, and maybe love is a mosquito net between the fear of living and the fear of death.” —Francis Bacon
I. Silence
ON THE AMTRAK, the quiet car is a relief, silence being the sole co...
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