Borderless Bodies

Linh Dinh

Poetry

Factory School. 2005. 102 pages, perfect bound, 6.5x9.

ISBN: 1-60001-042-3

Description: Linh Dinh’s third book of poems, Borderless Bodies is a fierce yet playful investigation into the body as metaphors, with its various processes as allegories. The body as polity and politics is also given a serious patdown. This is perhaps Linh Dinh’s most ambitious and accomplished book to date.

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Linh Dinh is the author of two collections of stories, Fake House (Seven Stories Press 2000) and Blood and Soap (Seven Stories Press 2004), and three books of poems, All Around What Empties Out (Tinfish 2003), American Tatts (Chax 2005) and Borderless Bodies (Factory School 2005). His work has been anthologized in Best American Poetry 2000, Best American Poetry 2004 and Great American Prose Poems from Poe to the Present, among other places. He 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). He has been invited to read his poetry all over the U.S., and in London, Cambridge and Berlin.

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