Hieu Minh Nguyen’s Book Notes music playlist for his poetry collection Staying Still

In the Book Notes series, authors create and discuss a music playlist that relates in some way to their recently published book. Previous contributors include Jesmyn Ward, Lauren Groff, Bret Easton Ellis, Celeste Ng, T.C. Boyle, Dana Spiotta, Hanif Abdurraqib, Andrew Sean Greer, Roxane Gay, and many others. Hieu Minh Nguyen’s poetry collection Staying Still brilliantly examines topics like the complex family legacy of refugees and queer life. Publishers Weekly wrote of the book: “Explores queer desire, refugee inheritance, and generational loneliness in works that range between intimate memory and the forces shaping identity and longing.” In his own words, here is Hieu Minh Nguyen’s Book Notes music playlist for his poetry collection Staying Still: Stream the playlist at Apple Music Yearn, baby, yearn. I wanted to make a playlist that wandered alongside my book. So these are songs to play while you back out of the driveway. Songs to hum while you’re filling up the tank—to drum along…