Index of titles N-P (i)

from the janitor at the Viet Nam Literature Project

N through P inclusive as of June 12, 2023:

N

None.

O

On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous (i). From poet Ocean Vuong and Penguin Press. October 15, 2022:

I need a book, she said. Have you got one?

One of My Best Friends (i). From poet David Connolly at Viet Nam Generation Journal 4:3-4. July 6, 2022:

If you have no idea what David Connolly is talking about, good for you. I am not going to tell you.

One of My Best Friends (ii). From poet David Connolly at Viet Nam Generation Journal 4:3-4. September 3, 2022:

It is something we used to say in the middle of last century to preface a statement of resistance against one man one vote and in favor of segregated neighborhoods and schools. Over the third quarter of the century we started saying it to make fun of those unaware that we still led whites-only lives.

One of My Best Friends (iii). From poet David Connolly of the 11th Armored Cavalry. May 8, 2023:

Hey look. The poet included that poem in his collection, Lost in America.

Out with the Lions (i). From author Loyd Little and editors Wayne Karlin, Basil T. Paquet, and Larry Rottmann at 1st Casualty Press. April 20, 2022:

"'Bac si' a voice interrupted.

'Yes, An?' I said.”

P

Panthers in the Skins of Men (i). From novelist Charles Nelson and the United States Navy. February 19, 2023:

My teacher Harold Bloom argued as a young man and assumed as an old one that an artist never acknowledges his predecessor. Following old weird Harold we may then notice that Arthur Rimbaud was the poet who did not influence the novelist Charles Nelson.

Paper Bells (i). From poet Phan Nhiên Hạo translated by Hai-Dang Phan. March 2, 2022:

Judge a book by its cover. What it’s for.

Paper Bells (ii). From poet Phan Nhiên Hạo translated by Hai-Dang Phan. March 19, 2022:

“A one-story house holding 60,000 gallons of gasoline.”

3 complete sentences come before that phrase.

Paper Bells (iii). From poet Phan Nhiên Hạo translated by Hai-Dang Phan. April 18, 2022:

“Preface"

It ends 6 more pages later with the signature of Hai-Dang Phan.

Paper Bells (iv). From poet Phan Nhiên Hạo translated by Hai-Dang Phan. May 21, 2022:

It's a book of poems. You read it.

Paper Bells (v). From poet Phan Nhiên Hạo translated by Hai-Dang Phan. June 22, 2022:

“Having lost our senses, we carry on the struggle of cooking maggot corpses from a busted refrigerator.”

My ham fist points a pudgy index at that stanza.

Parthian Shot (i). From novelist Loyd Little at Viking Press. October 24, 2022:

How is it that I had never heard of Loyd Little? I must have read before the passage of this 1976 novel that Wayne Karlin published in the very first collection of veteran authors 50 years ago, in 1973.

Parthian Shot (ii). From novelist Loyd Little of the Civilian Irregular Defense Group, IV Corps. April 17, 2023:

I drifted through 2 afternoons reading this novel as a dream, as so many across 5 centuries have read that Alonso Quijano, hero of the early modern novel, read his chivalric romances. You get lost then wake up.

Poème des chauffeurs de camion sans pare-brise (i). From poet Phạm Tiến Duật and La Maison des Éditions en Langues Étrangères. December 18, 2022:

Poem about truckers without a windshield

(Bài thơ về tiểu đội xe không kính)

Poème des chauffeurs de camion sans pare-brise (ii). From poet Phạm Tiến Duật and La Maison des Éditions en Langues Étrangères. January 8, 2023:

Bài thơ về tiểu đội xe không kính

Truckers Without Windshields

Postcards from the End of America (i). From poet Linh Dinh. June 11, 2022:

Judge a book by its cover. What it’s for.

Postcards from the End of America (ii). From poet Linh Dinh and Seven Stories Press. August 6, 2022:

"Oil made this America-dominated, futuristic world, and with its increasing scarcity, will unravel it."

The poet Linh Dinh posted each report as he wrote it 8 years ago in 2014, then gathered and published them again as this book with Dan Simon from Seven Stories Press 5 years ago in 2017.

Postcards from the End of America (iii). From poet Linh Dinh and Seven Stories Press. August 22, 2022:

I dislike that table of contents. Centered.

Postcards from the End of America (iv). From poet Linh Dinh and the oppressed. May 11, 2023:

They begin after the half-title, the very first leaf of the book where the title appears alone. They aren’t postcards.

Viet Nam letters previously published an Index of titles A-F through March 18, 2023 and an Index of titles G-M through March 21, 2023.