Pitch, “Composed over a decade in Philadelphia, Windhoek, Da Lat, Ea Kly, Bengaluru, Vung Tau and Phnom Penh, etc., these are accounts of ordinary people being brainwashed, rendered increasingly destitute and led into war. Despite it all, we still know how to laugh, marvel at beauty and appreciate each other, so this ain't yet a doomsday diary.”
What a fantastic essay, Mr. Dinh. You captured and conveyed the heart of what it is to be among the American working-class in the late twentieth, early twenty first century. (Sort of the antithesis of Norman Rockwell -- who today might be known as Norm Rockprettygood -- What America needs now is a new Hegel to find the synthesis of this Rockwellian thesis -- Dinh antithesis. Maybe Saturday Night Live sometimes achieves that?)
This essay needs to be translated into all the major languages of the world so people everywhere can understand what America (the United States) is really about.
I would venture that this is a masterpiece that will be read and studied for decades, a timeless piece of Americana.
Not sure the poet AR AB taught me anything other than to cross the street or duck at the right time. On the other hand my reasonably extensive vocabulary has once again been expanded by my favourite Vietnamese poet (a very select group of one) with the word 'spavined'.
Had me from start to finish. Beautifully told. I want this next. I just got your Escape From America book sent. I figured out I had to go through Amazon Oz. It's harder to buy your book from the USA than for anyone to wander across the border.
What a fantastic essay, Mr. Dinh. You captured and conveyed the heart of what it is to be among the American working-class in the late twentieth, early twenty first century. (Sort of the antithesis of Norman Rockwell -- who today might be known as Norm Rockprettygood -- What America needs now is a new Hegel to find the synthesis of this Rockwellian thesis -- Dinh antithesis. Maybe Saturday Night Live sometimes achieves that?)
This essay needs to be translated into all the major languages of the world so people everywhere can understand what America (the United States) is really about.
I would venture that this is a masterpiece that will be read and studied for decades, a timeless piece of Americana.
Not sure the poet AR AB taught me anything other than to cross the street or duck at the right time. On the other hand my reasonably extensive vocabulary has once again been expanded by my favourite Vietnamese poet (a very select group of one) with the word 'spavined'.
You in 1984:Not loco.
From a fellow-poet,Heinrich Heine(from A Winter`s Tale)
I know the tune, I know the words,
I also know every author;
I know they secretly drank wine,
While publicly preaching water.
A new song, a better song,
My friends will be my aim!
We should, right now on earth,
A kingdom of heaven proclaim.
He was invited to the Rothschilds palace,he toasted,"I raise my glass to the biggest criminals of today.God is money now and you are its prophets."
Had me from start to finish. Beautifully told. I want this next. I just got your Escape From America book sent. I figured out I had to go through Amazon Oz. It's harder to buy your book from the USA than for anyone to wander across the border.