The poet Linh Dinh has been out getting loaded with the wretched of the earth all century. He published a selection from his reports as Postcards from the End of America.
Linh doesn't plan to publish any further in the United States, it seems to me. He has become an intellectual anti-Semite and vulgar Jew-hater. You can't play that way here.
But for me, as a Jew, hatred is what we expect. As French, I couldn't read much if I ruled out anti-Semites. Linh remains my good friend and longtime comrade in literary work.
I will be reading him for a long time. It strikes me that writing in a gratuitous, hateful, and rude manner about my people has won independence for Linh.
Dan Simon, for instance, who published this book, has one very scriptural name. I should be surprised if Dan and Linh will work together again.
All Linh's work before these postcards has been assimilative, striving to win distinction in art worlds, especially the short story in English and poetry in Vietnamese. The postcards rather work, or don't, for one reader at a time.
That is how I work as well. That is how I will be working on my buddy for a good long time. He is an otherwise loving man who poses no threat to anyone except himself.
Read all about it. When you read what I write about my reading you achieve our purpose here. Thank you.
Should you support the other reader at $50/year or the the writing at $250/year, I will appreciate it.
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The poet Linh Dinh has been out getting loaded with the wretched of the earth all century. He published a selection from his reports as Postcards from the End of America.
Linh doesn't plan to publish any further in the United States, it seems to me. He has become an intellectual anti-Semite and vulgar Jew-hater. You can't play that way here.
But for me, as a Jew, hatred is what we expect. As French, I couldn't read much if I ruled out anti-Semites. Linh remains my good friend and longtime comrade in literary work.
I will be reading him for a long time. It strikes me that writing in a gratuitous, hateful, and rude manner about my people has won independence for Linh.
Dan Simon, for instance, who published this book, has one very scriptural name. I should be surprised if Dan and Linh will work together again.
All Linh's work before these postcards has been assimilative, striving to win distinction in art worlds, especially the short story in English and poetry in Vietnamese. The postcards rather work, or don't, for one reader at a time.
That is how I work as well. That is how I will be working on my buddy for a good long time. He is an otherwise loving man who poses no threat to anyone except himself.
Read all about it. When you read what I write about my reading you achieve our purpose here. Thank you.
Should you support the other reader at $50/year or the the writing at $250/year, I will appreciate it.