Poetry. The prose poems in Linh Dihn's DRUNKARD BOXING are worldly, visual images that induce distinct feelings that only places and things can give you. The body and movement are ever present in Dinh's work and offer random detail in ways that make perfect sense. Dinh's other books includes Blood and Soup, Fake House: Stories, American Tatts, and more. Born in Vietnam, Linh Dinh came to the United States in 1975. He has published poetry in numerous journals, including Sulfur, New American Writing, and Kenyon Review. DRUNKARD BOXING is his first collection from the Philadelphia Publishing Project, which responds to the need for national exposure for emerging writers in Philadelphia.

Author City: PHILADELPHIA, PA USA

Dinh was born in Saigon, Vietnam, came to the US in 1975, and is living in Philadelphia. In 2005, he was a David Wong fellow at the University of East Anglia, in Norwich, England. He spent 2002-2003 in Italy as a guest of the International Parliament of Writers and the town of Certaldo. His books include the story collections Fake House (Seven Stories Press, 2000) and Blood and Soap (Seven Stories Press, 2004), and the poetry chapbook DRUNKARD BOXING (Singing Horse Press, 1998) and the collections ALL AROUND WHAT EMPTIES OUT (Tinfish, 2003), AMERICAN TATTS (Chax, 2005), BORDERLESS BODIES (Factory School, 2006), JAM ALERTS (Chax, 2007), and SOME KIND OF CHEESE ORGY (Chax, 2009).

Reviews and Other Links
http://proximate.org/drunkardboxing.htm
http://www.vietnamlit.org/wiki/index.php?title=Linh_Dinh
http://wwwwsonneteighteencom.blogspot.com/
http://writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/x/Dinh.php