Staying Still Paperback by Hieu Minh Nguyen

Product Details

• Publisher: Tin House (2026-09-01)
• Language: English
• Paperback: 112 pages
• ISBN-13: 9781638934707
• Item Weight: 136.08 grams
• Dimensions: 22.86 x 15.24 x 0.79 cm

Stegner and NEA Fellow Hieu Minh Nguyen’s visionary poetry collection about generational loneliness, desire, and longing.

"I am in the passenger seat heading wherever this poet wants to take me.” —Danez Smith

The highly anticipated follow-up to the award-winning poetry collection Not Here, Hieu Minh Nguyen’s Staying Still centers on the question of how: How do our anxieties around the idea of belonging estrange us from the very world we seek to belong in? How impossible does it feel to stay still and face ourselves? From the intimate longing of queer boyhood to the collective expectations imposed upon children of refugees, these poems face head-on the rejections, grief, and violence we fear in fractured family dynamics, love, and desire as we search for our place in this world.

About the Author

Hieu Minh Nguyen is the author of two collections of poetry, This Way to the Sugar and Not Here, which went on to win the Thom Gunn Award for Gay Poetry. Some awards and fellowships Hieu has received include the Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation, a Wallace Stegner Fellowship from Stanford University, a McKnight Writing Fellowship, and a National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship. His work has appeared in Poetry, The Atlantic, Best American Poetry, The New York Times, and elsewhere. He is a graduate of the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College. Hieu lives in Oakland and is a Jones Lecturer in Poetry at Stanford University.