{"product_id":"come-clean","title":"Come Clean","description":"Joshua Nguyen's sharp, songlike, and often experimental collection compartmentalizes past trauma--sexual and generational--through the quotidian. Poems aim to confront the speaker's past by physically, and mentally, cleaning up. Here, the Asian-American masculine interrogates the domestic space through the sensual and finds healing through family and in everyday rhythms: rinsing rice until the water runs clear, folding clean shirts, and attempts at re-creating an unwritten family recipe. Yet past wounds remain present like permanent marker under layers of paint or spilled fish sauce set into car upholstery. Infused with the Shinto-inspired organizing practices of KonMari and the catchy nihilism of Mitski's songs, the poems in \u003cem\u003eCome Clean\u003c\/em\u003e unpack, organize, and tidy up life's messy joys and hurtful chaos with intimacy, grace, and vulnerability. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNo matter how smattered my insides,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI am relieved that I left my room tidy—\u003cbr\u003e One less ugly sight.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e I always wanted to die clean \u0026amp; pretty\u003cbr\u003e while my dreams made music in the night.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e—Excerpt from \"Last Words\"","brand":"University of Wisconsin Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40051050020947,"sku":"","price":18.5,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780299336042_082b58d8-5da1-4ba4-8683-2c1e0a7a9240.jpg?v=1777988742","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/come-clean","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}