Gunfighter Layne Britton's plan to settle in Wichita to work his late uncle's ranch is threatened when ruthless Dolph Catron frames him for a murder in order to steal the ranch

Product Description: Poetry. Asian & Asian American Studies. Edited and translated from the Vietnamese by Linh Dinh. "Carefully selected for their literary significance as well as their antagonism towards state power, cultural orthodoxy and conventional wisdom, the hundred and sixty Vietnamese-language poems annotated, contextualized and expertly translated into English in THE DELUGE provide a stunningly original (counter) history-in-fragments of Vietnamese society from the 1960's up till today...read more

Product Description: Poetry. "The ever-precise and brilliant James Schuyler characterized Vladimir Mayakovsky's poetry as brimming with the 'intimate yell.' Frank O'Hara got that energy pulsing in his work, but was tenderer, while Linh Dinh is more preposterous and full of outrage than either...read more

Presents impressions of life in post-war Vietnam as seen by twelve contemporary writers, including stories by Bao Ninh, Le Minh Khue, Mai Kim Ngoc, and Tran Vu

Product Description: Poetry. Asian American Studies. Revised and enlarged edition. "There are two kinds of readers in English, those who are passionate fans of the poetry of Linh Dinh and those who have yet to read his writing.... Linh Dinh looks at the world with the clearest eyes imaginable, a walking example of the role of the real at the heart of the surreal...read more

Product Description: POETRY. Linh Dinh's third book of poems, Borderless Bodies is a fierce yet playful investigation into the body as metaphor, with its various processes as allegories--"Where bones always nudge/ Against the fuzziest skin./ Where inside and outside/ Are confused and flushed"--from "Borders...read more

Product Description: Blood and Soap is a breakthrough collection of modern-day fables from a wildly inventive American writer whose fiction has been called "terse and edgy" (Booklist) and "vividly imagined" (Kirkus Reviews). Dinh's gift is for constructing, in the manner of Italo Calvino, simple narratives that quickly frame larger questions; with a poet's timing, the author builds his stories to the one or few climactic sentences that brand them with unforgettable meaning...read more

Product Description: Crossing the River presents a wide range of Nguyen Huy Thiep's short fiction, both realistic stories in contemporary settings and retellings of folk myths that serve as contemporary parables. When Thiep's stories first appeared in the 1980s, they set off a chain of debate, not only within intellectual and political circles, but also within the society at large...read more

Product Description: Poetry. Asian American Studies. "Given that there are two kinds of readers in English, those who are passionate fans of the poetry of Linh Dinh and those who have yet to read his writing, ALL AROUND WHAT EMPTIES OUT is a major event, too long overdue...read more

Product Description: Three Vietnamese Poets is translated and introduced by Vietnamese-American writer, Linh Dinh. The poets included in this volume are Nguyen Quoc Chanh, Phan Nhien Hao, and Van Cam Hai.

In a debut collection of short fiction, the Vietnam-born author explores the continuing intimacies and complex relationships that exist between the United States and Vietnam as he introduces a wide variety of characters who make their way through a post-Vietnam War world. (view table of contents)

Product Description: Poetry. The prose poems in Linh Dihn's DRUNKARD BOXING are worldly, visual images that induce distinct feelings that only places and things can give you. The body and movement are ever present in Dinh's work and offer random detail in ways that make perfect sense...read more