Steven Duong

3 weeks ago | nypl.org | Hadara Bar-Nadav |Steven Duong |Alison C. Rollins |Danez Smith

Bar-Nadav reimagines modern-day wellness from her perspective of a medical editor whose family history of Holocaust survival prompts her dissection of the pharmaceutical industry in a series of erasures and referential narratives. "Betta fish are a motif," Duong informs in his poem, "Novel." The fish stand in for conflicts of all sorts: familial, ecological, migratory, creative.