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Index
Cover
Title
Contents
Foreword by Yusef Komunyakaa
The Lost Pilot by James Tate
Introduction
Quan Barry
from “child of the enemy”
Tom Bissell
from The Father of All Things
Star Black
To a War Correspondent
Recollection
Lily Katherine Bowen
Lanterns
Falling
Emily Brandt
from Air Age
Petroleum
Kapok
Cork
Ash
Silk
Cathy Linh Che
Split
Los Angeles, Manila, Đà Nẵng
Teresa Mei Chuc
from Year of the Hare
Brandon Courtney
Prometheus
Year Without Dusting
Achilles, Veterans’ Hospital (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
Linh Dinh
Viet Cong University
Prisoner with a Dictionary
David Ellis
Aphasia
Heinz Insu Fenkl
from Memories of My Ghost Brother
Nick Flynn
Practical Joke
from The Ticking Is the Bomb
Terrance Hayes
The Long Shadow of War
Jennifer Jean
In the War
Adam Karlin
How I Didn’t Find My Father’s War in Vietnam
Elmo Keep
The Book I Didn’t Write
Andrew Lam
The Stories They Carried
Lê Thị Diễm Thúy
The Gangster We Are All Looking For
Nam Le
Love and Honor and Pity and Pride and Compassion and Sacrifice
T.K. Lê
Part of Memory Is Forgetting
Ada Limón
Listen
Brian Ma
July in Vietnam
Aerial
Sjohnna McCray
How to Move
Bedtime Story #1
Gardner Mcfall
Missing
On the Line
Blue Raft
Philip Metres
The Things They Carried That We Carry
from Hung Lyres
Mộng-Lan
Field
A New Việt Nam
Juan J. Morales
The Cloverleaf
Phobias
John Murillo
Trouble Man
Ngô Tự Lập, Translated from the Vietnamese by Martha Collins and the Author
Women from the 1960s (I)
A Bullet Fired into the Night
Bich Minh Nguyen
The Good Immigrant Student
Hoa Nguyen
Agent Orange Poem
Independence Day 2010
Hieu Minh Nguyen
Buffet Etiquette
Cockfight
Tater Tot Hot-Dish
Phong Nguyen
The Wheel of History
Nguyen Phan Que Mai, Translated from the Vietnamese by Bruce Weigl and the Author
The Boat Girl
My Mother
Quảng Trị
Nguyễn Quang Thiˋêu, Translated from the Vietnamese by Martha Collins and the Author; Kevin Bowen and the Author
The Examples
My Father’s Laughter
July
August
Vaan Nguyen, Translated from the Hebrew By Adriana X. Jacobs
Mekong River
Packing Poem
Viet Thanh Nguyen
April 30
Deborah Paredez
Lavinia Writing in the Sand
A History of Bamboo
Suzan-Lori Parks
Father Comes Home from the Wars (Part 1)
Father Comes Home from the Wars (Part 3)
Playing Chopsticks (Father Comes Home from the Wars, Part 7)
Father Comes Home from the Wars (Part 11: His Eternal Return—A Play for My Father)
Andrew X. Pham
The Fall of Saigon
Aimee Phan
Motherland
Bao Phi
War Before Memory: A Vietnamese American Protest Organizer’s History Against Miss Saigon
Ben Quick
The Boneyard
Ashley Romano
Jersey City
Josephine Rowe
Vanellinae
What I Know of Doorways
Love
Levi Rubeck
Yellow Flare
Mall Flare
Karen Russell
Underground in Vietnam
Brian Schwartz
Invasion
Monica Sok
Kampuchean Skin
Left-Behind Looks for the Apsaras
When the War Was Over
Kim Thúy, Translated from the French by Sheila Fischman
from Ru
Paul Tran
Self-Immolation
Heirloom
Julie Thi Underhill
The Silent Opening
war dreams
Mai Der Vang
Light from a Burning Citadel
I the Body of Laos and All My UXOs
When the Mountains Rose Beneath Us, We Became the Valley
Chi Vu
The Uncanny
Vuong Quoc Vu
Twenty Two
The Year of the Pig
Flower Bomb
Ocean Vuong
The Weight of Our Living: On Hope, Fire Escapes, & Visible Desperation
Zachary Watterson
A Soundtrack of the War
Adam Wiedewitsch
Fisherman’s Hang
Saint Michael, with Agent Orange
Hanh Nguyen Willbond
War Music Awakening for Soldier’s Daughter
Song of Napalm (by Bruce Weigl)
Matthew Wimberley
Two Days Home
In My Father’s Words, 1969
Karen Spears Zacharias
The Man in the Jeep
Acknowledgments
Permissions
Also by Laren McClung
About the Author
Copyright
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