Poetry. "The ever-precise and brilliant James Schuyler characterized Vladimir Mayakovsky's poetry as brimming with the 'intimate yell.' Frank O'Hara got that energy pulsing in his work, but was tenderer, while Linh Dinh is more preposterous and full of outrage than either. Imagine a concoction that mixes Shakespeare's Falstaff and Celine's Bardum, frank, rollicking humor and hair-raising disgust. After adding fish sauce, a smelly cheese and sexual sweat, shake vigorously. Out of the bottle rises Linh Dinh. God talks to him and he talks about everything, including the body parts that Renaissance painters left out. No one does it better"--John Yau.

Author Hometown: PHILADELPHIA, PA USA



About the author: 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:
http://wwwwsonneteighteencom.blogspot.com/
http://www.vietnamlit.org/wiki/index.php?title=Linh_Dinh
http://booksofpoetry.blogspot.com/2009/11/seconds-ago-i-was-among-chillin.html
http://www.spdbooks.org/pages/staff-picks/default.aspx
http://writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/x/Dinh.php
http://thefanzine.com/articles/poetry/403/some_kind_of_cheese_orgy_by_linh_dinh