
Inheriting the War
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Descendants of Vietnam veterans and refugees confront the aftermath of war and, in verse and prose, deliver another kind of war story.
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.
"Each unique work in Inheriting the War embraces a collective that aims to engage through some daring and passionate truths calibrated by bravery.” —Yusef Komunyakaa, from the foreword
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Content
- Intro
- Cover
- Title
- Contents
- Foreword by Yusef Komunyakaa
- The Lost Pilot by James Tate
- Introduction
- Quan Barry
- from "child of the enemy"
- Tom Bissell
- from The Father of All Things
- Star Black
- To a War Correspondent
- Recollection
- Lily Katherine Bowen
- Lanterns
- Falling
- Emily Brandt
- from Air Age
- Petroleum
- Kapok
- Cork
- Ash
- Silk
- Cathy Linh Che
- Split
- Los Angeles, Manila, Dà N?ng
- Teresa Mei Chuc
- from Year of the Hare
- Brandon Courtney
- Prometheus
- Year Without Dusting
- Achilles, Veterans' Hospital (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
- Linh Dinh
- Viet Cong University
- Prisoner with a Dictionary
- David Ellis
- Aphasia
- Heinz Insu Fenkl
- from Memories of My Ghost Brother
- Nick Flynn
- Practical Joke
- from The Ticking Is the Bomb
- Terrance Hayes
- The Long Shadow of War
- Jennifer Jean
- In the War
- Adam Karlin
- How I Didn't Find My Father's War in Vietnam
- Elmo Keep
- The Book I Didn't Write
- Andrew Lam
- The Stories They Carried
- Lê Th? Di?m Thúy
- The Gangster We Are All Looking For
- Nam Le
- Love and Honor and Pity and Pride and Compassion and Sacrifice
- T.K. Lê
- Part of Memory Is Forgetting
- Ada Limón
- Listen
- Brian Ma
- July in Vietnam
- Aerial
- Sjohnna McCray
- How to Move
- Bedtime Story #1
- Gardner Mcfall
- Missing
- On the Line
- Blue Raft
- Philip Metres
- The Things They Carried That We Carry
- from Hung Lyres
- M?ng-Lan
- Field
- A New Vi?t Nam
- Juan J. Morales
- The Cloverleaf
- Phobias
- John Murillo
- Trouble Man
- Ngô T? L?p, Translated from the Vietnamese by Martha Collins and the Author
- Women from the 1960s (I)
- A Bullet Fired into the Night
- Bich Minh Nguyen
- The Good Immigrant Student
- Hoa Nguyen
- Agent Orange Poem
- Independence Day 2010
- Hieu Minh Nguyen
- Buffet Etiquette
- Cockfight
- Tater Tot Hot-Dish
- Phong Nguyen
- The Wheel of History
- Nguyen Phan Que Mai, Translated from the Vietnamese by Bruce Weigl and the Author
- The Boat Girl
- My Mother
- Qu?ng Tr?
- Nguy?n Quang Thi'êu, Translated from the Vietnamese by Martha Collins and the Author
- Kevin Bowen and the Author
- The Examples
- My Father's Laughter
- July
- August
- Vaan Nguyen, Translated from the Hebrew By Adriana X. Jacobs
- Mekong River
- Packing Poem
- Viet Thanh Nguyen
- April 30
- Deborah Paredez
- Lavinia Writing in the Sand
- A History of Bamboo
- Suzan-Lori Parks
- Father Comes Home from the Wars (Part 1)
- Father Comes Home from the Wars (Part 3)
- Playing Chopsticks (Father Comes Home from the Wars, Part 7)
- Father Comes Home from the Wars (Part 11: His Eternal Return-A Play for My Father)
- Andrew X. Pham
- The Fall of Saigon
- Aimee Phan
- Motherland
- Bao Phi
- War Before Memory: A Vietnamese American Protest Organizer's History Against Miss Saigon
- Ben Quick
- The Boneyard
- Ashley Romano
- Jersey City
- Josephine Rowe
- Vanellinae
- What I Know of Doorways
- Love
- Levi Rubeck
- Yellow Flare
- Mall Flare
- Karen Russell
- Underground in Vietnam
- Brian Schwartz
- Invasion
- Monica Sok
- Kampuchean Skin
- Left-Behind Looks for the Apsaras
- When the War Was Over
- Kim Thúy, Translated from the French by Sheila Fischman
- from Ru
- Paul Tran
- Self-Immolation
- Heirloom
- Julie Thi Underhill
- The Silent Opening
- war dreams
- Mai Der Vang
- Light from a Burning Citadel
- I the Body of Laos and All My UXOs
- When the Mountains Rose Beneath Us, We Became the Valley
- Chi Vu
- The Uncanny
- Vuong Quoc Vu
- Twenty Two
- The Year of the Pig
- Flower Bomb
- Ocean Vuong
- The Weight of Our Living: On Hope, Fire Escapes, & Visible Desperation
- Zachary Watterson
- A Soundtrack of the War
- Adam Wiedewitsch
- Fisherman's Hang
- Saint Michael, with Agent Orange
- Hanh Nguyen Willbond
- War Music Awakening for Soldier's Daughter
- Song of Napalm (by Bruce Weigl)
- Matthew Wimberley
- Two Days Home
- In My Father's Words, 1969
- Karen Spears Zacharias
- The Man in the Jeep
- Acknowledgments
- Permissions
- Also by Laren McClung
- About the Author
- Copyright
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