Linh Dinh
Linh Dinh Poems
He has a muscular torso
With a thousand erections
Lighting up the night sky
But none sticks up more
...
I used to paint with linseed,
Now I paint with crude oil.
Draped in cheap oil and sweating oil,
...
Death will come with your eyes—
this death that accompanies us
from morning till night, sleepless,
deaf, like an old regret
...
A blind and deaf bullet buried in the field
Dozing through decades of blood and bones
Then one morning
In a bustling future
...
I’ll give you a roll of barbwire
A vine for this modern epoch
Climbing all over our souls
That’s our love, take it, don’t ask
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Man and woman watch each other lying in bed:
their two bodies stretched out wide and exhausted.
the man is still, only the woman takes long breaths
that quiver her ribs. The legs distended
...
Why be ashamed? When one has done time,
if they let one out, it's because like everybody else
who belongs to the streets, one has been in prison.
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Again the rain will fall
on the sweet pavements,
a light rain
like a breath or a footstep.
...
I was a caring husband. I bought socks for my family.
My swarthy wife liked to wear these thick woolen socks that came
up to her milky thighs.
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Linh Dinh Biography
Linh Dinh was born in Saigon, Vietnam in 1963, came to the US in 1975, and has also lived in Italy and England. He is the author of two collections of stories and four books of poems. His work has been anthologized in Best American Poetry 2000, Best American Poetry 2004, Best American Poetry 2007 and Great American Prose Poems from Poe to the Present, among other places. Linh Dinh is also the editor of the anthologies Night, Again: Contemporary Fiction from Vietnam (Seven Stories Press 1996) and Three Vietnamese Poets (Tinfish 2001) , and translator of Night, Fish and Charlie Parker, the poetry of Phan Nhien Hao (Tupelo 2006) . Blood and Soap was chosen by the Village Voice as one of the best books of 2004. His poems and stories have been translated into Italian, Spanish, German, Dutch, Portuguese, Japanese and Arabic, and he has been invited to read his works all over the US, London, Cambridge and Berlin. He has also published widely in Vietnamese. He lives in Philadelphia.)
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Vertigo
He has a muscular torso
With a thousand erections
Lighting up the night sky
But none sticks up more
Than the twin cocks.
(And yet)
Who would think of going all the way
Downtown to castrate
With two knives ablaze?
A muscular story ends.
He now speaks differently
And cannot look into the void
Without flailing.
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