POETRY. Linh Dinh's third book of poems, Borderless Bodies is a fierce yet playful investigation into the body as metaphor, with its various processes as allegories--"Where bones always nudge/ Against the fuzziest skin./ Where inside and outside/ Are confused and flushed"--from "Borders." The body as polity and politics as metaphor and subject at once--"One only misses one's bellybutton/ As one is hacked away from it"--making this perhaps Linh Dinh's most ambitious and accomplished book to date. His other collections are AMERICAN TATTS: REVISED AND EXPANDED EDITION and ALL AROUND WHAT EMPTIES OUT.

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://www.vietnamlit.org/wiki/index.php?title=Linh_Dinh
http://wwwwsonneteighteencom.blogspot.com/
http://writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/x/Dinh.php