A lavishly produced short-run artist book of poetry by Truong Tran and black-and-white photographs of Vietnam by Chung Hoang Chuong.

Tran's work explores the duality of being Vietnamese American and the fragmentation of the self as a result of this dual existence. Chuong, the previous director of the Vietnamese American Studies Center at San Francisco State University, interweaves elegant photographs that perfectly echo Tran's concerns and embodies his work through landscape and light.

The book examines the other as perceived language, dives into the loss of other as both a place and a stranger, that stranger being a beloved country as if to decipher the self by saying: to love you I lose myself.

A portion of the proceeds from the book benefited the Huong Viet Community Center.

TBOP was a finalist for the Kiriyama Prize