POG

POETRY IN ACTION

Presents

poet

 

Linh Dinh

 

Sunday, October 22, 7:30pm
DINNERWARE ARTS
101 W. Sixth Street
(corner 6th St. & 9th Ave., enter on 9th Ave.)
 

Admission: $5; Students $3
 

There are two kinds of readers in English, those who are passionate fans of the poetry of Linh Dinh and those who have yet to read his writing. . . . Linh Dinh looks at the world with the clearest eyes imaginable, a walking example of the role of the real at the heart of the surreal.-- Ron Silliman

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Reading Linh Dinh is a tonic and a revelation. His poems might have taken off the top of Dickinson’s head, and then some. Linh Dinh raids and reinvents the language with an ardor bordering on delirium.-- Rachel Loden

 

Linh Dinh’s is a unique voice in contemporary American literature. He writes with the raging wit and the soul of a poet.-- Jessica Hagedorn

 
Linh Dinh is the author of two collections of stories, Fake House (2000) and Blood and Soap (2004), and a book of poems, All Around What Empties Out (2003). His work has been anthologized in Best American Poetry 2000, Best American Poetry 2004, Great American Prose Poems from Poe to the Present (2003), and Three Vietnamese Poets (2001). He is also the editor of Night, Again: Contemporary Fiction from Vietnam (1996) and Three Vietnamese Poets (2001).