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Watermark (Asian American Writers Worksh) Paperback – March 19, 1998

by Barbara Tran (Editor), Monique T.D. Truong (Editor), Khoi Truong Luu (Editor)
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This landmark collection of poetry and prose heralds a new era for Vietnamese American literature. Here, for the first time, 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. With works by such writers as Linh Dinh, Andrew Lam and Christian Langworthy.
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  1. Print length
    227 pages
  2. Language
    English
  3. Publisher
    Temple University Press
  4. Publication date
    March 19, 1998
  5. Dimensions
    5.75 x 0.25 x 9 inches
  6. ISBN-10
    1889876046
  7. ISBN-13
    978-1889876047
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Vietnamese American writers Tran, who has published in such journals as Amerasia and Antioch Review, and her coeditors present a volume rich in the voices of people made to straddle two cultures. Over half the pieces have been previously published in journals or collections of Asian American literature, but the emphasis in Watermark is very contemporary and totally Vietnamese. While other anthologies of Vietnamese literature focus on the experience of the Vietnam War, this book focuses mostly on first- or second-generation Vietnamese Americans as they maneuver through American culture. Not to be missed are Andrew Lam's two stories "Grandma's Tales," an unexpectedly droll flight of fancy about the death of a Vietnamese grandmother, and "Show and Tell," the moving portrayal of the introduction of a Vietnamese refugee boy into an eighth-grade American class. The selections fill a gap in Asian American literature as they present a vision both gripping and arresting.AD.E. Perushek, Northwestern Univ. Lib., Evanston, IL
Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About the Author

Barbara Tran was the recipient of a Cornell Woolrich scholarship at Columbia University, where she earned her M.F.A.

Monique T.D. Truong is a writer and attorney in New York City.

Luu Truong Khoi graduated from Harvard College and the Boston University Creative Writing Program.

Contributors: Quang Bao, Lan Cao, Bao-Long Chu, Linh Dinh, Maura Donohue, Lan Duong, Lai Thanhha, Andrew Lam, Christian Langworthy, lê thi diem thúy, Mong Lan, Bich Minh Nguyen, Nguyen Qui Duc, Minh Duc Nguyen, Nguyen Ba Trac, Dao Strom, Barbara Tran, Diep Khac Tran, Truong Tran, Trinh T. Minh-ha, Monique T. D. Truong, Trac Vu, Thuong Vuong-Riddick.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Temple University Press; English Language edition (March 19, 1998)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 227 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1889876046
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1889876047
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 12 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.75 x 0.25 x 9 inches
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Born in Saigon, South Vietnam, Monique Truong came to the U.S. as a refugee in 1975. She is a writer based now in Brooklyn, New York. Her award-winning novels are The Sweetest Fruits (Viking Books, 2019), Bitter in the Mouth (Random House, 2010), and the national bestseller The Book of Salt (Houghton Mifflin, 2003). She is the co-editor of Watermark: Vietnamese American Poetry & Prose, 25th Anniversary Edition (DVAN Series, Texas Tech University Press, 2023). With fashion designer Thai Nguyen and New York Times bestselling illustrator Dung Ho, Truong is the co-author of Mai's Áo Dài, a children's picture book (Atheneum/Caitlyn Dlouhy Books, 2025).

A Guggenheim Fellow, U.S.-Japan Creative Artists Fellow in Tokyo, Visiting Writer at the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies, Princeton University’s Hodder Fellow, Kirk Writer-in-Residence at Ages Scott College, Sidney Harman Writer-in-Residence at Baruch College (CUNY), and Frank B. Hanes Writer-in-Residence at UNC-Chapel Hill, Truong was most recently awarded a John Gardner Fiction Book Award and a John Dos Passos Prize for Literature. Truong received her BA in Literature from Yale and her JD from Columbia Law School.

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Leslie S.
5.0 out of 5 stars Remarkable and diverse!
Reviewed in the United States on August 30, 2019
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I, like most Westerners, knew little about Asian writers and only vaguely thought about Samurai soldiers, opium dens, rice, and a world of faceless peasants. As I read this book I felt ashamed of my ignorance and how acceptable in the West it was to think of "Asia" as homogenous and mysterious. I would never lump all of British, Irish, French, and Italian literature together as "European". Asia is not "inscrutable"--we, in the West, are shamefully ignorant.
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Silicon Tundra
5.0 out of 5 stars Great lyrical stories
Reviewed in the United States on July 24, 2009
Actual title is "Watermark: vietnamese american poetry & prose," ISBN 1-889876-05-4 hc. PS591 .A76 W38 at Univ MN, Wilson Lib

One of the best stories is "Tale of Apricot," by Minh Duc Nguyen, p59-73. In the back of book p220, About the Contributors, it says that he is a grad film student at USC and he is working on several screenplays.

Originally pub in on of the last volumes of Viet Forum periodical v16, Yale (1997) where Dan Duffy (Ed), "Not a War: Amer Vietnamese Fiction, Poetry, and Essays," p131-44.
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