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Inheriting the war : poetry and prose by descendants of Vietnam veterans and refugees / edited by Laren McClung.

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New York : W.W. Norton & Company, [2018]

Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Literary collections.

Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Personal narratives.

Veterans' writings, American.

Vietnamese literature -- 20th century -- Translations into English.

9780393354287 (paperback) :

0393354288 (paperback)

xiii, 415 pages ; 24 cm

from Child of the enemy / Quan Barry -- from The father of all things / Tom Bissell -- To a war correspondent ; Recollection / Star Black -- Lanterns ; Falling / Lily Katherine Bowen -- Air page. Petroleum ; Kapok ; Cork ; Ash ; Silk / Emily Brandt -- Split ; Los Angeles, Manila, Đà Nẵng / Cathy Linh Che -- Year of the hare / Teresa Mei Chuc -- Premetheus ; Year without dusting ; Achilles, Veterans' Hospital (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) / Brandon Courtney -- Viet Cong University ; Prisoner with a dictionary / Linh Dinh -- Aphasia / David Ellis -- Memories of my ghost brother / Heinz Insu Fenkl -- Practical joke ; from The ticking is the bomb / Nick Flynn -- The long shadow of war / Terrance Hayes -- In the war / Jennifer Jean -- How I didn't find my father's war in Vietnam / Adam Karlin -- The book I didn't write / Elmo Keep -- The stories they carried / Andrew Lam -- The gangster we are all looking for / Lê Thị Diễm Thúy -- Love and honor and pity and pride and compassion and sacrifice / Nam Le -- Part of memory is forgetting / T.K. Lê -- Listen / Ada Limón -- July in Vietnam ; Aerial / Brian Ma -- How to move ; Bedtime story #1 / Sjohnna McCray -- Missing ; On the line ; Blue raft / Gardner McFall -- The things they carried that we carry ; from Hung lyres / Philip Metres -- Field ; A new Việt Nam / Mộng-Lan -- The Cloverleaf ; Phobias / Juan J. Morales -- Trouble man / John Murillo -- Women from the 1960s (I) ; A bullet fired into the night / Njô Tụ' Lập -- The good immigrant student / Bich Minh Nguyen -- Agent Orange poem ; Independence Day 2010 / Hoa Nguyen -- Buffet etiquette ; Cockfight ; Tater tot hot-dish / Hieu Minh Nguyen -- The wheel of history / Phong Nguyen -- The boat girl ; My mother ; Quảng trị / Nguyen Phan Que Mai -- The examples ; My father's laughter ; July ; August / Nguyễn Quang Thiều -- Mekong River ; Packing poem / Vaan Nguyen -- April 30 / Viet Thanh Hguyen -- Lavinia writing in the sand ; A history of bamboo / Deborah Paredez -- Father comes home from the wars. Part 1 ; Part 3 ; Part 7: Playing chopsticks ; Part 11: His eternal return--a play for my father / Suzan-Lori Parks -- The fall of Saigon / Andrew X. Pham -- Motherland / Aimee Phan -- War before memory: a Vietnamese American protest organizer's history against Miss Saigon / Bao Phi -- The boneyard / Ben Quick -- Jersey City / Ashley Romano -- Vanellinae ; What I know of doorways ; Love / Josephine Rowe -- Yellow flare ; Mall flare / Levi Rubeck -- Underground in Vietnam / Karen Russell -- Invasion / Brian Schwartz -- Kampuchean skin ; Left-behind looks for the apsaras ; When the war was over / Monica Sok -- from Ru / Kim Thúy -- Self-immolation ; Heirloom / Paul Tran -- The silent opening ; war dreams / Julie Thi Underhill -- Light from a burning citadel ; I the body of Laos and all my UXOs ; When the mountains rose beneath us, we became the valley / Mai Der Vang -- The uncanny / Chi Vu -- Twenty two ; The year of the pig ; Flower bomb / Vuong Quoc Vu -- The weight of our living: on hope, fire escapes, & visible desperation / Ocean Vuong -- A soundtrack of the war / Zachary Watterson -- Fisherman's hang ; Saint Michael, with Agent Orange / Adam Wiedewitsch -- War music awakening for soldier's daughter ; Song of napalm (by Bruce Weigl) / Hanh Nguyen Willbound -- Two days home ; In my father's words, 1969 / Matthew Wimberley -- The man in the jeep / Karen Spears Zacharias.

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