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Linh Dinh

PoemTalk Episode #51, Discussing Linh Dinh's "Eating Fried Chicken", feat. Thomas Devaney, Susan Schultz, and Leonard Schwartz
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PoemTalk Episode #38, Discussing Norman Fischer's "I'd Like to See It", feat. Julia Bloch, Linh Dinh, and Frank Sherlock
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PoemTalk Episode #29, Discussing Kit Robinson's "Return on Word", feat. Tom Devaney, Linh Dinh, and Rae Armantrout
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PoemTalk Episode #17, Discussing Rodrigo Toscano's "Poetics", feat. Randall Couch, Linh Dinh, and Emily Abendroth
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PoemTalk Episode #5, Discussing Ted Berrigan's "3 Pages", feat. Linh Dinh, Randall Couch, and erica kaufman
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PoemTalk Episode #3, Discussing George Oppen's "Ballad", feat. Jessica Lowenthal, Linh Dinh, Rachel Blau DuPlessis
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PoemTalk Episode #2, Discussing Adrienne Rich's "Wait", feat. Jessica Lowenthal, Linh Dinh, and Randall Couch
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PoemTalk Episode #1, Discussing William Carlos Williams' "Between Walls", feat. Jessica Lowenthal, Linh Dinh, and Randall Couch
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- Complete reading (1:07:27): MP3
- From Gil Ott's "The City" (1:06): MP3
- Jive and Solids (4:17): MP3
- What I Usually Tell My Students (1:59): MP3
- Today's Poem is Sponsored By (0:52): MP3
- Amputated Fox (2:50): MP3
- Reading is Linear (1:32): MP3
- Borderless Valley (2:56): MP3
- The Difficulties of Poetry (1:29): MP3
- Thirteen (6:32): MP3
- Metropolis (2:17): MP3
- 2084 (1:12): MP3
Complete reading (27:32): MP3
Reading at Myopic Bookstore, Chicago, Octover 24 2009
Complete reading (45:30): MP3
Recording presented courtesy of Daniel Godston and Larry Sawyer.
- Cleverly Framed, Anyone (1:22): MP3
Benefit for Chax Press and Voices Inc. at the Rogue Theater, October 30, 2009, on POG Sound
Complete Reading (18:57): MP3
Complete recording (29:00): MP3
From Wave Books' PoetryPolitic Blog, 2008
- Poems from Borderless Bodies (6:42): MP3
Rueful Outlay For Conscript (2:11): MP3
- Introduction (0:43): MP3
- On nature of language; comments on “Prisoner with a Dictionary,” from Blood and Soap (1:40): MP3
- “Prisoner with a Dictionary” (7:39): MP3
- Associations with the word “dictionary” and learning English (4:02): MP3
- “Key Words” from Blood and Soap (2:23): MP3
- On culture of ‘vigilant neighbors’ (1:05): MP3
- Discussing Three Vietnamese Poets (2:02): MP3
- “Seven Untitled Poems,” and context (4:04): MP3
- Discussing second poet from Three Vietnamese Poets (0:58): MP3
- “Night’s Dawn” (1:27): MP3
- Discussing third poet (1:49): MP3
- “The Rivers Have Not Only Me” (1:00): MP3
- Translation of poetry in America (1:39): MP3
- “Letter to my Dad,” from All Around What Empties Out (1:11): MP3
- Juxtaposition of masochistic humor and tragic sensibility (2:54): MP3
- “Traditional Vietnamese Architecture” (1:54): MP3
- "Old Hanoi” (0:58): MP3
- Political atmosphere in Saigon (2:50): MP3
- “Stewart Crenshaw” (13:46): MP3
- Conclusion (1:21): MP3
Complete recording (56:42): MP3
Reading at the Kelly Writers House from Live
at the Writers House Episode 1, University of Pennsylvania, February
15, 1997
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"A Noise Came to the Door" (0:55)
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"ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ" (1:20)
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"The Sea" (2:15)
Poems from Drunkard Boxing (Singing Horse Press, 1998):
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"Acoustics" (0:57)
[cf: Steve
Evans' notes on thirdfactory.net]
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"All Around What Empties Out" (1:11)
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"My Rising Prospects" (1:09)
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"What's My Name" (1:34)
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"A Chatter of Honor" (2:56)
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"A Childhood in Vermont" (1:09)
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"The Fox Hole" (1:15)
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"The Most Beautiful Word" (1:36)
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"Guide to Odors" (1:45)
- Introduction
by Adrian Khactu (3:05)
- "Speechless"
(6:51)
- "Getting
Up: Conditional" (1:28)
- "The
Persistence of Animism" (0:29)
- "Nature
Freaks" (1:21)
- "Afflictions"
(0:47)
- "Deadly
Bravado" (1:09)
- "Spiralling
Jetty" (1:45)
- "Fortunes"
(11:57)
- "Book
Review" (11:37)
- "My
Local Burning" (1:09)
- "An Awful
Joke" (0:16)
- "2084"
(0:48)
- "Recent
Archeo News" (2:28)
- "Beloved
Alone" (0:39)
Complete recording (1:05:30): MP3
From Blood and Soap (Seven Stories Press, 2004)
- Introduction to "13" (1:57): MP3
- "13" (4:48): MP3
- Introduction to "Key Words" (1:44): MP3
- "Key Words" (1:23): MP3
- "A Moral Decision" (0:52): MP3
- "Losers" (3:49): MP3
Recent unpublished poems from Detainees, Dinh's
blog
- "XVIII in Adjectives" (1:49): MP3
- "Add-Ons" (1:10): MP3
- "Not Quite Symmetry" (1:49): MP3
- "Let's Talk" (0:36): MP3
- "I Owe You These Lines" (2:43): MP3
From American Tatts (Chax Press, 2005)
- Introduction to "Bearings" (1:51): MP3
- "Bearings" (2:10): MP3
- "Eating Fried Chicken" (1:09): MP3
[text]
- "Exits" (1:14): MP3
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"A Car in Every Line" (from Detainees) (2:20): MP3
- "Baseball Epiphanies" (1:45): MP3
- "Sudden Death Overtime" (0:38): MP3
- "Vocab Lab" (3:32): MP3
"Eating Fried Chicken" is also featured on PoemTalk Episode 51.
From Detainees
- Introduction to "Double Double Portraits..." (3:43): MP3
- "Double Double Portraits (long version, well strung, as in horses, as in thief)" (3:08): MP3
- "Vietnamese for Uptight?" (3"18): MP3
- "Body Eats" (6:02): MP3
From Borderless Bodies (Factory School, 2006)
- Introduction to the bilingual poems (2:06): MP3
- "Obsolete Maps" in Vietnamese (0:18): MP3
- "Obsolete Maps" in English (0:18): MP3
- "Borders" in Vietnamese (0:12): MP3
- "Borders" in English (0:16): MP3
- "Processed Food" in Vietnamese (0:16): MP3
- "Processed Food" in English (0:18): MP3
- "Trinity" in Vietnamese (0:26): MP3
- "Trinity" in English (0:34): MP3
- "Eating and Feeding" in Vietnamese (0:45): MP3
- "Eating and Feeding" in English (0:47): MP3
- "Liquid" in Vietnamese (0:19): MP3
- "Liquid" in English (0:19): MP3
- "Gaseous" in Vietnamese (0:15): MP3
- "Gaseous" in English (0:19): MP3
- "Wiping" in Vietnamese (0:18): MP3
- "Wiping" in English (0:17): MP3
- "A Fairy Tale" in Vietnamese (0:17): MP3
- "A Fairy Tale" in English (0:17): MP3
- "Ductless Gland" in Vietnamese (0:16): MP3
- "Ductless Gland" in English (0:18): MP3
- "Bardic" in Vietnamese (0:15): MP3
- "Bardic" in English (0:33): MP3
- "Curriculum Vitae" in Vietnamese (0:15): MP3
- "Curriculum Vitae" in English (0:59): MP3
- "Menu" (2:27): MP3
- "Biblical Haiku" (2:27): MP3
- "Borderless Body" (1:48): MP3
to read more of Linh Dinh's poems in Vietnamese, please visit: TienVe
Studio 111 Session produced by Michael S. Hennessey
- The Most
Beautiful Word (1:36)
- A Smooth
Life (7:13)
- A
Childhood in Vermont (1:09)
- Vocab Lab
(1:42)
- Which Not
(0:56)
- My Buttocks
(translation) (1:55)
- Why
Pay Taxes and Demarcations (2:36)
Also on PennSound:
Video:
Wednesday Series: Cole Swenson and Linh Dinh, St. Mark’s Church, NY, January 27, 1999
Recorded on audiocassette. Recording hosted by the Library of Congress.
- Side A (49:00): link
- Side B (49:14): link
Also of Interest:
Linh Dinh comments on the poetry scene (01-18-2011 at the Kelly Writers House) (1:44): MP3
These sound recordings are being made available for noncommercial and educational
use only. All rights to this recorded material belong to the author. © 2012
Linh Dinh. Used with permission of Linh Dinh. Distributed by PennSound.
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