Here is my third Viet Nam letter concerning Isabelle Thuy Pelaud's study of Vietnamese American literature in broad terms with careful reading of two poets. I used to gulp down books like this and hurl up
my thoughts projectively. I am glad I did, since so few books ever get an honest reading in public. Seldom is anyone well qualified to read another's monograph, and when we are we don't,
whether because we don't want to help the author or we don't want to hurt them. Perversely my vomit of books won influence beyond my ability
so I stopped for a long time, before getting to Isabelle's. When I got my head straight I put her study in the first rotation. So far the posts on her work are among the most read.
Writing them has developed my own general ideas from all my specific cuds, including the Green Berets and the Vietnamese Studies and the fiction in Vietnamese as well as one of her direct topics,
the works of my buddy the poet Linh Dinh. I thank those who read my writing about Isabelle's writing about her reading the writing of Linh and others.
That's it. What we do here. You have completed our purpose. Should you further support the readers at $50/year or the enterprise at $250/year, I will appreciate it.
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Here is my third Viet Nam letter concerning Isabelle Thuy Pelaud's study of Vietnamese American literature in broad terms with careful reading of two poets. I used to gulp down books like this and hurl up
my thoughts projectively. I am glad I did, since so few books ever get an honest reading in public. Seldom is anyone well qualified to read another's monograph, and when we are we don't,
whether because we don't want to help the author or we don't want to hurt them. Perversely my vomit of books won influence beyond my ability
so I stopped for a long time, before getting to Isabelle's. When I got my head straight I put her study in the first rotation. So far the posts on her work are among the most read.
Writing them has developed my own general ideas from all my specific cuds, including the Green Berets and the Vietnamese Studies and the fiction in Vietnamese as well as one of her direct topics,
the works of my buddy the poet Linh Dinh. I thank those who read my writing about Isabelle's writing about her reading the writing of Linh and others.
That's it. What we do here. You have completed our purpose. Should you further support the readers at $50/year or the enterprise at $250/year, I will appreciate it.
you write about multiculturalism better than anyone i know. that i get to learn about your viet nam in the process is an added bonus.