Watermark: Vietnamese American Poetry & Prose

By Barbara Tran

Here, the most innovative contemporary Vietnamese American writers explore thematic and stylistic territory previously overlooked in other collections, which have traditionally focused on the all-too-expected theme of war. Watermark lifts all constraints, leaving the works to reset the boundaries for themselves. And they do -- using poetry, fiction, and experimental forms to venture further into the fringes of the Vietnamese American psyche. There they find a dead dog and hockey puck, a frozen (literally) grandmother, a hairpiece, Gertrude Stein, and a stick of spearmint gum. Here fiction and poetry reflect and refract on adolescence and sexuality, language, death, and distance. The result is a sly, haunting, wry look at life anywhere.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1889876054
• ISBN13: 9781889876054
• Release Date: April 1998
• Publisher: Asian American Writer's Workshop
• Length: 227 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.3" x 0.8" x 6.5"