Linh Dinh

PoemTalk #17: Rodrigo Toscano, "Poetics"
with Al Filreis and Emily Abendroth; May 12, 2009
Discussion (26:03): MP3

• Diorama (1:17)
• Drunkard Boxing (0:53)

1. "A Noise Came to the Door" (0:55)
2. "ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ" (1:20)
3. "The Sea" (2:15)
   Poems from Drunkard Boxing (Singing Horse Press, 1998)
4. "Acoustics" (0:57) [Cf: Steve Evans' notes on thirdfactory.net]
5. "All Around What Empties Out" (1:11)
6. "My Rising Prospects" (1:09)
7. "What's My Name" (1:34)
8. "A Chatter of Honor" (2:56)
9. "A Childhood in Vermont" (1:09)
10. "The Fox Hole" (1:15)
11. "The Most Beautiful Word" (1:36)
12. "Guide to Odors" (1:45)

1. Introduction by Adrian Khactu (3:05)
2. "Speechless" (6:51)
3. "Getting Up: Conditional" (1:28)
4. "The Persistence of Animism" (0:29)
5. "Nature Freaks" (1:21)
6. "Afflictions" (0:47)
7. "Deadly Bravado" (1:09)
8. "Spiralling Jetty" (1:45)
9. "Fortunes" (11:57)
10. "Book Review" (11:37)
11. "My Local Burning" (1:09)
12. "An Awful Joke" (0:16)
13. "2084" (0:48)
14. "Recent Archeo News" (2:28)
15. "Beloved Alone" (0:39)
16. Recording of the entire program (1:05:30)

1. Introduction to "13" (1:57) : MP3
2. "13" (4:48) : MP3
3. Introduction to "Key Words" (1:44) : MP3
4. "Key Words" (1:23) : MP3
5. "A Moral Decision" (0:52) : MP3
6. "Losers" (3:49) : MP3

recent unpublished poems from Detainees, Dinh's blog

1. "XVIII in Adjectives" (1:49) : MP3  Text
2. "Add-Ons" (1:10) : MP3  Text
3. "Not Quite Symmetry" (1:49) : MP3
4. "Let's Talk" (0:36) : MP3  Text
5. "I Owe You These Lines" (2:43) : MP3  Text

from American Tatts (Chax Press, 2005)

1. Introduction to "Bearings" (1:51) : MP3
2. "Bearings" (2:10) : MP3
3. "Eating Fried Chicken" (1:09) : MP3
4. "Exits" (1:14) : MP3
6. "A Car in Every Line" (from Detainees) (2:20) : MP3
7. "Baseball Epiphanies" (1:45) : MP3
8. "Sudden Death Overtime" (0:38) : MP3
9. "Vocab Lab" (3:32) : MP3

from Detainees

1. Introduction to "Double Double Portraits..." (3:43) : MP3
2. "Double Double Portraits (long version, well strung, as in horses, as in thief)" (3:08) : MP3  Text
3. "Vietnamese for Uptight?" (3"18) : MP3
4. "Body Eats" (6:02) : MP3  Text

from Borderless Bodies (Factory School, 2006)

1. Introduction to the bilingual poems (2:06) : MP3
2. "Obsolete Maps" in Vietnamese (0:18) : MP3
3. "Obsolete Maps" in English (0:18) : MP3
4. "Borders" in Vietnamese (0:12) : MP3
5. "Borders" in English (0:16) : MP3
6. "Processed Food" in Vietnamese (0:16) : MP3
7. "Processed Food" in English (0:18) : MP3
8. "Trinity" in Vietnamese (0:26) : MP3
9. "Trinity" in English (0:34) : MP3
10. "Eating and Feeding" in Vietnamese (0:45) : MP3
11. "Eating and Feeding" in English (0:47) : MP3
12. "Liquid" in Vietnamese (0:19) : MP3
13. "Liquid" in English (0:19) : MP3
14. "Gaseous" in Vietnamese (0:15) : MP3
15. "Gaseous" in English (0:19) : MP3
16. "Wiping" in Vietnamese (0:18) : MP3
17. "Wiping" in English (0:17) : MP3
18. "A Fairy Tale" in Vietnamese (0:17) : MP3
19. "A Fairy Tale" in English (0:17) : MP3
20. "Ductless Gland" in Vietnamese (0:16) : MP3
21. "Ductless Gland" in English (0:18) : MP3
22. "Bardic" in Vietnamese (0:15) : MP3
23. "Bardic" in English (0:33) : MP3
24. "Curriculum Vitae" in Vietnamese (0:15) : MP3
25. "Curriculum Vitae" in English (0:59) : MP3
26. "Menu" (2:27) : MP3
27. "Biblical Haiku" (2:27) : MP3
28. "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

1. The Most Beautiful Word (1:36)
2. A Smooth Life (7:13)
3. A Childhood in Vermont (1:09)
4. Vocab Lab (1:42)
5. Which Not (0:56)
6. My Buttocks (translation) (1:55)
7. Why Pay Taxes and Demarcations (2:36)

• "A Smooth Life" (2005) (7:14)
• Linh Dinh on miPOradio POdcast
• Linh Dinh on the PoemTalk podcast series

• "The Mind's G Spot" (2007) (1:45)
• "E.S.L." (2007) (0:49)
Linh Dinh's YouTube video site

On Cross-Cultural Poetics with Leonard Schwartz: MP3 (29:00)

• January 8, 2008: "Studio 111 Sessions: Linh Dinh"

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