Monthly Archives: August, 2016

Bốn bài thơ của Chieu Anh Nguyen :: Four Poems by Chieu Anh Nguyen

diaCRITICS presents 4 poems by Saigon-based poet, Chieu Anh Nguyen. Huong Nguyen's translations for each poem follow the original Vietnamese text. Originally published in Undercurrents, the latest issue of Iowa University's Exchanges literary journal.

ERIC NGUYỄN BÌNH LUẬN TẬP THƠ “NIGHT SKY WITH EXIT WOUNDS” CỦA OCEAN VƯƠNG

Eric Nguyen bình luận tập thơ đầu tay của Ocean Vương, Night Sky with Exit Wounds, tạm dịch Trời Đêm cùng Những Vết Thương Xuyên.

OUT OF THE MARGINS :: When You Let Your Hair Down Christine

Sometimes when Christine       lets down her hair, sometimes when                she lets down her hair, it seems as if my                   nocturnal bloodstream were transporting private cargos of emotion across the pacific.

Eric Nguyen Reviews ‘The Old Philosopher’ by Vi Khi Nao

Reviewed by Eric Nguyen. The title poem situates the readers to Nao’s ontological project. In thirteen lines, Nao paints a scene of birds—“approximately four thousand/two-hundred and forty five” of them—released from the trunks of three cars...

Fish in Exile

Vi Khi Nao's novel, Fish in Exile, will make its first appearance on November 1, 2016.

The Unquiet Daughter

Danielle Flood, a journalist born of the wartime love triangle that inspired the one in Graham Greene’s The Quiet American, searches for her father after surviving a bizarre youth of privilege, estrangement and cruelty.