
A Mere Rica
Linh Dinh(Author)
Chax Press
Will be published approx. on 1. January 2017
Book
Paperback/Softback
234 pages
978-1-946104-04-5 (ISBN)
Description
Getting back to the theme of writing from the outside, I published this in the American Poetry Review in 01/01/2004, " I've come to realize that I much prefer to live on the periphery of the English language, so that I can steer clear of the tyranny of its suffocating center. In this sense, I am a quintessential American. A Unapoet, I like to homestead just beyond the long reach of Washington [... ] Hearing the rapid syllables of a foreign language, a bigot is infuriated because he's reduced to the status of an infant. Poets, on the other hand, should welcome all opportunities to become disoriented. To not know what's happening forces one to become more attentive and to fill in the blanks. Hence, poetry." (Linh Dinh, from the Interview with Tahseen Alkhateeb)
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Language
English
Place of publication
Arizona
United States
Edition type
Unabridged edition
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 236 mm
Width: 135 mm
Thickness: 13 mm
Weight
386 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-946104-04-5 (9781946104045)
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Linh Dinh is the author of five previous books of poems, plus two collections of short stories, a novel and a nonfiction account of the economic, social an political unraveling of the USA, Postcards from the End of America (Seven Stories Press 01/01/2017). His political essays are regularly published at Unz Review and other webzines.