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Inheriting the war : poetry and prose by descendants of Vietnam veterans and refugees / edited by Laren McClung.

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W.W. Norton, 2018.

Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Literary collections.

Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Personal narratives.

Veterans' writings, American.

Vietnamese literature -- 20th century -- Translations into English.

9780393354287 (hc.)

Alternate title:

Poetry and prose by descendants of Vietnam veterans and refugees

xiii, 415 p. ; 24 cm.

From Child of the enemy / Quan Barry -- from The father of all things / Tom Bissell -- To a war correspondent ; Recollection / Star Black -- Lanterns ; Falling / Lily Katherine Bowen -- Air page. Petroleum ; Kapok ; Cork ; Ash ; Silk / Emily Brandt -- Split ; Los Angeles, Manila, Đà Nãng / Cathy Linh Che -- Year of the hare / Teresa Mei Chuc -- Premetheus ; Year without dusting ; Achilles, Veterans' Hospital (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) / Brandon Courtney -- Viet Cong University ; Prisoner with a dictionary / Linh Dinh -- Aphasia / David Ellis -- Memories of my ghost brother / Heinz Insu Fenkl -- Practical joke ; from The ticking is the bomb / Nick Flynn -- The long shadow of war / Terrance Hayes -- In the war / Jennifer Jean -- How I didn't find my father's war in Vietnam / Adam Karlin -- The book I didn't write / Elmo Keep -- The stories they carried / Andrew Lam -- The gangster we are all looking for / Lê Thị Dîẽm Thúy -- Love and honor and pity and pride and compassion and sacrifice / Nam Le -- Part of memory is forgetting / T.K. Lê -- Listen / Ada Limón -- July in Vietnam ; Aerial / Brian Ma -- How to move ; Bedtime story #1 / Sjohnna McCray -- Missing ; On the line ; Blue raft / Gardner McFall -- The things they carried that we carry ; from Hung lyres / Philip Metres -- Field ; A new Vịêt Nam / Ṃông-Lan -- The Cloverleaf ; Phobias / Juan J. Morales -- Trouble man / John Murillo -- Women from the 1960s (I) ; A bullet fired into the night / Njô Tụ' Ḷâp -- The good immigrant student / Bich Minh Nguyen -- Agent Orange poem ; Independence Day 2010 / Hoa Nguyen -- Buffet etiquette ; Cockfight ; Tater tot hot-dish / Hieu Minh Nguyen -- The wheel of history / Phong Nguyen -- The boat girl ; My mother ; Qủang trị / Nguyen Phan Que Mai -- The examples ; My father's laughter ; July ; August / Nguŷẽn Quang Thîèu -- Mekong River ; Packing poem / Vaan Nguyen -- April 30 / Viet Thanh Hguyen -- Lavinia writing in the sand ; A history of bamboo / Deborah Paredez -- Father comes home from the wars. Part 1 ; Part 3 ; Part 7: Playing chopsticks ; Part 11: His eternal return--a play for my father / Suzan-Lori Parks -- The fall of Saigon / Andrew X. Pham -- Motherland / Aimee Phan -- War before memory: a Vietnamese American protest organizer's history against Miss Saigon / Bao Phi -- The boneyard / Ben Quick -- Jersey City / Ashley Romano -- Vanellinae ; What I know of doorways ; Love / Josephine Rowe -- Yellow flare ; Mall flare / Levi Rubeck -- Underground in Vietnam / Karen Russell -- Invasion / Brian Schwartz -- Kampuchean skin ; Left-behind looks for the apsaras ; When the war was over / Monica Sok -- from Ru / Kim Thúy -- Self-immolation ; Heirloom / Paul Tran -- The silent opening ; war dreams / Julie Thi Underhill -- Light from a burning citadel ; I the body of Laos and all my UXOs ; When the mountains rose beneath us, we became the valley / Mai Der Vang -- The uncanny / Chi Vu -- Twenty two ; The year of the pig ; Flower bomb / Vuong Quoc Vu -- The weight of our living: on hope, fire escapes, & visible desperation / Ocean Vuong -- A soundtrack of the war / Zachary Watterson -- Fisherman's hang ; Saint Michael, with Agent Orange / Adam Wiedewitsch -- War music awakening for soldier's daughter ; Song of napalm (by Bruce Weigl) / Hanh Nguyen Willbound -- Two days home ; In my father's words, 1969 / Matthew Wimberley -- The man in the jeep / Karen Spears Zacharias.

Fifty years after the Vietnam War, this anthology by descendants of Vietnam veterans and refugees--American, Vietnamese, Vietnamese Diaspora, Hmong, Australian, and others--confronts war and its aftermath. What emerges is an affecting portrait of the effects of war and family--an intercultural, generational dialogue on silence, memory, landscape, imagination, Agent Orange, displacement, postwar trauma, and the severe realities that are carried home. Including such acclaimed voices as Viet Thanh Nguyen, Karen Russell, Terrance Hayes, Suzan-Lori Parks, Nick Flynn, and Ocean Vuong, Inheriting the War enriches the discourse of the Vietnam War and provides a collective conversation that attempts to transcend the recursion of history.

McClung, Laren.

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