Linh Dinh was born in Saigon, Vietnam in 1963, came to the US in 1975, and has also lived in Italy and England. He is the author of two collections of stories, Fake House (Seven Stories Press 2000) and Blood and Soap (Seven Stories Press 2004), and four books of poems, All Around What Empties Out (Tinfish 2003), American Tatts (Chax 2005), Borderless Bodies (Factory School 2006) and Jam Alerts (Chax 2007). His work has been anthologized in Best American Poetry 2000, Best American Poetry 2004, Best American Poetry 2007 and Great American Prose Poems from Poe to the Present, among other places. Linh Dinh is also the editor of the anthologies Night, Again: Contemporary Fiction from Vietnam (Seven Stories Press 1996) and Three Vietnamese Poets (Tinfish 2001), and translator of Night, Fish and Charlie Parker, the poetry of Phan Nhien Hao (Tupelo 2006). Blood and Soap was chosen by the Village Voice as one of the best books of 2004. His poems and stories have been translated into Italian, Spanish, German, Dutch, Japanese and Arabic, and he has been invited to read his works all over the US, London, Cambridge and Berlin. He has also published widely in Vietnamese.

 

 

Linh Dinh interviewed on Brooklyn Rail newspaper:
http://www.thebrooklynrail.org/books/may04/linhdinh.html

Linh Dinh profiled on Philadelphia's City Paper:
http://www.citypaper.net/articles/011101/ae.books.shtml

Linh Dinh's poems in Vietnamese:
http://www.tienve.org/home/authors/viewAuthors.do;jsessionid=FE95CBD66B734DE6187B7C5D07C3261D?action=show&authorId=13

 

Linh Dinh's audio files:

http://www.miporadio.net/LINH_DINH/index.html

 

The selection of poems here featured are from the books “Blood and Soap” (Seven Stories Press 2004) and “All Around What Empties Out” (Tinfish 2003). Le “Cinque Poesie del Corpo” have been translated into Italian by Linh Dinh.