The Holloway Series in Poetry

Linh Dinh is the author of two collections of stories, Fake House (Seven Stories Press 2000) and Blood and Soap (Seven Stories Press 2004), 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), and a novel, Love Like Hate (Seven Stories Press 2008). His work has been anthologized in Best American Poetry 2000, 2004 and 2007, and Great American Prose Poems from Poe to the Present, among other places. He is also the editor of the anthologies Night, Again: Contemporary Fiction from Vietnam (Seven Stories Press 1996), 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.
*qtd from Rachel Loden

Ron Sillman argues "there are two kinds of readers in English, those who are passionate fans of the poetry of Linh Dinh, and those who have yet to read his writing," and it's true: the experience of reading Dinh's simultaneously surreal and straightforward poetry is undeniably thrilling and infintely repeatable. These poems are headlong, raucous, roller-coaster rides through a mind that is serious and seriously at play. Thorny questions are posed, challenging positions are inhabited, and yet the poems' rewards are so great that we readers find ourselves devouring them like candy. --H.G.