Book release party for Jam Alerts,
Kelly Writers House, University of Pennsylvania,
April 24, 2007
- 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Recent unpublished poems from Detainees, Dinh's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
-
"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
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Linh Dinh. Used with permission of Linh Dinh. Distributed by PennSound.