The Old Philosopher

by Vi Khi Nao

Winner of the Nightboat Books Prize for Poetry

The Old Philosopher is enigmatic, sexual, biblical, anachronistic, political, and personal all at once. These quiet, implosive poems inhabit a nonlinear temporality in which Vi Khi Nao brings biblical time and political time together in the same poetic space, allowing current affairs to converse with a more ancient and historical reality.
— text from Nightboat Books