Lex-Icon Blog Project Post 47 : Truong Tran

The Lost Poem #1

Photo courtesy of Bob Hsiang photography

for the Mina Dresden Gallery, San Francisco CA

“It is part of a series in which I develop methods of work where I am able to compose a poem on a piece of art and lose it in the art simultaneously. In this particular piece, I wrote the poem using lettrasets while rotating the art on a spinning wheel. Evidence of the poem can be seen but impossible to read.”—Truong Tran

BIO:

Truong Tran is a poet and visual artist. His publications include, The Book of Perceptions (Kearny Street Workshop 1999, finalist in The Kiriyama Book Prize), Placing The Accents (Apogee Press 1999, finalist in the Western States Book Prize for Poetry), dust and conscience (Apogee Press 2000, awarded the San Francisco Poetry Center Book Prize), within the margin (Apogee Press 2004) and Four Letter Words (Apogee Press 2008). He is the recipient of three San Francisco Arts Commission’s Individual Artist Grants, An Arts Council of Silicon Valley Grant, a California Arts Council Grant, a Creative Work Fund Grant and a Fund For Poetry Grant. Truong lives and works in San Francisco and is currently the visiting Professor of Poetry at Mills College. Truong's collection Dust and Conscience was just published in Spanish. His Artwork has been shown at Intersection for the Arts, Kearny Street Workshop, and the California Historical Society. In February of 2010, Truong had his first solo exhibition at The Mina Dresden Gallery in San Francisco. In 2011, Turong along with Poet Laureate Robert Haas represented the United States at The Poetry Festival International, in Rotterdam. 2012 Truong had an exhibition of large scale sculptures at SOMArts entitled At War. See more on his home site: http://gnourtnart.com/home.html and also truongtran.tumblr.com

  

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