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Continental Drift

by Mai-Linh Hong

Geography, migration, and inheritance in poetry

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Awards & Recognition

  • Award recognition

    2025 Trio Award winner

    The collection is described as a 2025 Trio Award winner.

AlbakiReads Editorial

Geography, migration, and inheritance in poetry

Mai-Linh Hong’s collection traces connections between ancestral history, present experience, and the lives of future descendants. Its movement across Vietnam, Virginia, California, and Thailand places questions of migration and belonging alongside attention to nature and geological change. The poems consider how people navigate inherited histories, make space for themselves, and live with the griefs and possibilities of displacement in a postcolonial world. Geography here is both landscape and a way of thinking about how stories shift across generations.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Readers interested in Asian American and Pacific Islander poetry
  • Readers exploring migration, ancestry, and belonging
  • Readers drawn to poetry that connects landscape, nature, and history

Themes

Migration and navigationAncestral inheritanceGeography and geological changeBelonging and claiming spacePostcolonial experience

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Book overview

"To survive is to refuse / death, but how / to tell refusal from retreat?" In the 2025 Trio Award winning poetry collection Continental Drift, Mai-Linh Hong honors and explores the geography that made and continues to shape her ancestors' story, her own story, and the future story of her descendants. From Vietnam to Virginia, California to Thailand, Hong plumbs the fault lines, crosses the oceans, crystallizing moments into meaning. Whether luxuriating in the small joys of nature and of existence, or marveling at the process of geological shift, these artfully crafted poems bring the reader into the complex promises and griefs of migration, navigation, and claiming space in a postcolonial world.

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