Lower-case Roman numerals in parentheses (ii)

From the janitor at the Viet Nam Literature Project

Every title of a Viet Nam letter may appear again and again indefinitely until I stop writing any at all. Below I have listed each Viet Nam letter title by the highest number of times published.

Every title groups with others under that number given in lower-case Roman numerals within parentheses. So far, exactly 33 different titles have appeared (i) time.

Exactly 15 have appeared (ii) times; 7,(iii); 3, (iv); 7, (v); 4,(vi); 3, (vii); none have appeared (viii); and 1 only, (ix). The date of the most recent post of each title appears directly afterwards in italics.

I have ordered the groups from most appearances to least, and titles within each group from oldest to most recent. I have assembled this data so that I may consider, when choosing the next Viet Nam letter, whether to address the oldest title in each category in turn or follow some other scheme to write all I have to say.

(ix)

The Renovation. September 14, 2022.

(viii)

[empty set]

(vii)

Free Fire Zone. December 6, 2022.

Dawson’s War. February 25, 2023.

Familial Properties. March 27, 2023.

(vi)

Une si jolie petite guerre. July 9, 2022.

War and the Arc of Human Experience. July 11, 2022.

Viet Nam a New History. November 27, 2022.

Cõi Đem. February 22, 2023.

(v)

The Decorations and Medals of the Republic of Viet Nam. June 13, 2022.

Paper Bells. June 22, 2022.

This is All I Choose to Tell: History and Hybridity in Vietnamese American Literature. October 19, 2022.

Tradition, Revolution, and Market Economy in a North Vietnamese Village, 1925-2006. January 29, 2023.

Captain Blackman. February 16, 2023.

Sang et Fleurs. March 24, 2023.

Viet Nam letters. April 11, 2023.

(iv)

Subscription. February 6, 2022.

Index of titles. March 21, 2023.

Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Vietnam. April 14, 2023.

(iii)

Postcards from the End of America. August 22, 2022.

Lotusland. August 31, 2022.

Goddess on the Rise. September 26, 2022.

An Anatomy of the Laundry. February 4, 2023.

The Boy Who Picked the Bullets Up. February 9, 2023.

We Few. February 25, 2023.

A History of the Vietnamese. April 26, 2023.

(ii)

One of My Best Friends. September 3, 2022.

This Way to the Sugar. September 21, 2022.

Reading Vietnamese Aloud. November 5, 2022.

du Ciel et des Étoiles. November 21, 2022.

Southern Voices. November 24, 2022.

The Accident. December 6, 2022.

Cult, Culture, and Authority: Princess Liễu Hạnh in Vietnamese History. December 24, 2022.

Être mère au Viet Nam. December 27, 2022.

Poème des chauffeurs de camion sans pare-brise. January 8, 2023.

Mad Bomber Melville. January 11, 2023.

Index of Authors. January 23, 2023.

American Time Bomb. January 26, 2023.

Der Ritt auf dem Ochsen. March 15, 2023.

Parthian Shot. April 17, 2023.

Ao Dai. April 23, 2023.

Lower-case Roman numerals in parentheses. May 2, 2023.

(i)

David A. Willson. February 14, 2022.

The frogs are gone. March 9, 2022.

The Rabbi. March 21, 2022.

Out with the Lions. April 20, 2022.

Medical Evacuation. May 23, 2022.

There is nothing beautiful about my poetry. June 29, 2022.

In the Village of the Man. June 25, 2022.

My verses are in fact no verses. July 13, 2022.

Thoughts on a Monsoon Morning. July 20, 2022.

I will visit your home. July 27, 2022.

Democracy. July 30, 2022.

The King God Didn’t Save. August 1, 2022.

Why I Can’t. August 3, 2022.

Lower-case Roman numerals in parentheses. September 19, 2022.

Fair Use. September 12, 2022.

Distant Stars. September 17, 2022.

Why Were the Soil Tunnels of Cu Chi and Iron Triangle in Vietnam So Resilient? September 24, 2022.

Black Americans in Viet Nam letters. October 5, 2022.

On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous. October 15, 2022.

What Mother Told Me Once. November 2, 2022.

Every Day I Come All the Same. November 7, 2022.

Questions sous terre. December 9, 2022.

Tales of a Seventh Grade Lizard Boy. October 22, 2022.

Weirdo. February 13, 2023.

Panthers in the Skins of Men. February 19, 2023.

Trong Quan-Tài Buồn. February 22, 2023.

Dan Ellsberg. April 5, 2023.

Shavetail. April 8, 2023.

Song of the Negro Blacksmith. April 8, 2023.

The Communist Party of Vietnam. April 14, 2023.

13 Ways of Looking at a Jew Hater. April 29, 2023.