Watermark: Vietnamese American Poetry & Prose
Edited by Barbara Tran, Monique T. D. Truong, and Luu Truong Khoi
Watermark is recommended by:
- New Hampshire Humanities Council
New Hampshire Public Radio Interview with Quang Bao, Contributor and Director of the Asian American Writers' Workshop - KQED's Bay Window
- Organization of Chinese Americans
"A fascinating and surprising collection by a new generation of Vietnamese American writers, delving into identity and displacement with energy and grace."
Don Lee
Ploughshares, Fall 1998
"Vietnamese-American literature is young. You can hardly tell it, though, from this collection of stories published by the Asian American Writers' Workshop in New York. Here is an array of diverse talents that surprise and delight. Keen observation or exuberant fancy. Gentle humor, urbane charm, or devilish wit. Real life or the magic of dreams. Read Watermark and treat yourself to some fiction that transcends mere documents of the Vietnamese-American experience."
Huynh Sanh Thong
MacArthur Fellow
"Watermark is a welcome collection of diverse Vietnamese American voice that speaks eloquently across oceans and continents from Hanoi to Paris, from San Francisco to Saigon. Accomplished writers like Linh Dinh, Andrew Lam, Christian Langworthy, and others in this volume are endowed with the curse-blessing of being able to see the world through more than one pair of eyes, and they keep us hovering on the edge of heartbreak with their unforgettable characters, their riveting images, their magic words."
Elaine Kim
Professor of Asian American Studies
University of California, Berkeley
"Watermark, with its symphony of verses and compositions, signals the arrival of a new, important voice on the American literary scene....The clarity and breadth of Watermark is a testament to the diversity and range even within the Vietnamese American community itself. Theirs is a voice declaring its independence and interdependency, a voice remembering Vietnam not as a war, but as a land of promise and as a wealth of emotions washed in the calm of water"
Alicia Yang and Richard Lee
New Media Arts
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