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Inheriting the war: poetry and prose by descendants of Vietnam veterans and refugees
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Hughes Main Library - Adult Non-Fiction
808.80358 Inheriting
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From the Book - First edition.
from Child of the enemy / Quan Barry
from The father of all things / Tom Bissell
To a war correspondent ; Recollection / Star Black
Lanterns ; Falling / Lily Katherine Bowen
Air page. Petroleum ; Kapok ; Cork ; Ash ; Silk / Emily Brandt
Split ; Los Angeles, Manila, Đà Nẵng / Cathy Linh Che
Year of the hare / Teresa Mei Chuc
Premetheus ; Year without dusting ; Achilles, Veterans' Hospital (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) / Brandon Courtney
Viet Cong University ; Prisoner with a dictionary / Linh Dinh
Aphasia / David Ellis
Memories of my ghost brother / Heinz Insu Fenkl
Practical joke ; from The ticking is the bomb / Nick Flynn
The long shadow of war / Terrance Hayes
In the war / Jennifer Jean
How I didn't find my father's war in Vietnam / Adam Karlin
The book I didn't write / Elmo Keep
The stories they carried / Andrew Lam
The gangster we are all looking for / Lê Thị Diễm Thúy
Love and honor and pity and pride and compassion and sacrifice / Nam Le
Part of memory is forgetting / T.K. Lê
Listen / Ada Limón
July in Vietnam ; Aerial / Brian Ma
How to move ; Bedtime story #1 / Sjohnna McCray
Missing ; On the line ; Blue raft / Gardner McFall
The things they carried that we carry ; from Hung lyres / Philip Metres
Field ; A new Việt Nam / Mộng-Lan
The Cloverleaf ; Phobias / Juan J. Morales
Trouble man / John Murillo
Women from the 1960s (I) ; A bullet fired into the night / Njô Tụ' Lập
The good immigrant student / Bich Minh Nguyen
Agent Orange poem ; Independence Day 2010 / Hoa Nguyen
Buffet etiquette ; Cockfight ; Tater tot hot-dish / Hieu Minh Nguyen
The wheel of history / Phong Nguyen
The boat girl ; My mother ; Quảng trị / Nguyen Phan Que Mai
The examples ; My father's laughter ; July ; August / Nguyễn Quang Thiều
Mekong River ; Packing poem / Vaan Nguyen
April 30 / Viet Thanh Hguyen
Lavinia writing in the sand ; A history of bamboo / Deborah Paredez
Father comes home from the wars. Part 1 ; Part 3 ; Part 7: Playing chopsticks ; Part 11: His eternal return
a play for my father / Suzan-Lori Parks
The fall of Saigon / Andrew X. Pham
Motherland / Aimee Phan
War before memory: a Vietnamese American protest organizer's history against Miss Saigon / Bao Phi
The boneyard / Ben Quick
Jersey City / Ashley Romano
Vanellinae ; What I know of doorways ; Love / Josephine Rowe
Yellow flare ; Mall flare / Levi Rubeck
Underground in Vietnam / Karen Russell
Invasion / Brian Schwartz
Kampuchean skin ; Left-behind looks for the apsaras ; When the war was over / Monica Sok
from Ru / Kim Thúy
Self-immolation ; Heirloom / Paul Tran
The silent opening ; war dreams / Julie Thi Underhill
Light from a burning citadel ; I the body of Laos and all my UXOs ; When the mountains rose beneath us, we became the valley / Mai Der Vang
The uncanny / Chi Vu
Twenty two ; The year of the pig ; Flower bomb / Vuong Quoc Vu
The weight of our living: on hope, fire escapes, & visible desperation / Ocean Vuong
A soundtrack of the war / Zachary Watterson
Fisherman's hang ; Saint Michael, with Agent Orange / Adam Wiedewitsch
War music awakening for soldier's daughter ; Song of napalm (by Bruce Weigl) / Hanh Nguyen Willbound
Two days home ; In my father's words, 1969 / Matthew Wimberley
The man in the jeep / Karen Spears Zacharias.
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9780393354287