Not Here is a 2018 poetry collection by Vietnamese American poet Hieu Minh Nguyen, published by Coffee House Press.
Its included poems address topics such as queer Vietnamese American identity, body politics, trauma, family, and solitude.
Centered around Nguyen's experiences as a queer Vietnamese American, the book's poems span personal subject matter such as his childhood, as well as the trauma and abuse which he suffered earlier in his life.
[6] In a starred review, Publishers Weekly wrote, "Nguyen communicates with stunning clarity the ambivalence of shame, how it can commandeer one's life and become almost a comfort."
[7] Stephanie Burt, writing for The New York Times, called Not Here a "concise and unsettling second book of poems" and, with regard to his representation of pain, said "very few could do what Nguyen has done.