Shallow Graves: Two Women and Vietnam - Softcover

100 Days
Advice
Advice 2
Advice 3
The Airport
Allison
The American Advisor
The American Captain
The Americans
Assignment
Auntie Lan's Son
Auntie Mai
Back In The World
Bao
Bar-girl's Song To A Gi
Blue Cable
Boys
Burma
Burning Our House In Hadong
Calling Home
Camp
Capture
Check-points
Chi Ai
The Chinese
The Chinese General
The Church
Consciousness-raising
Corruption
Dao Dua The Coconut Monk
Dave's Ocelot
Dawn Sow
The Dead Must Not Go Hungry
Death Day
Deciding
Dinner Party
Duncan's Horses
Editor
Eleven Years Old
England
Escape
Exams
The Execution
Famine
Farewell To Fort Chaffee
Fighting
First, We Must Take Ourselves
For Chi Phuc
Fort Chaffee
The Four Demeanors
The Game
The Game Of Chess
Geckos
Geneva Agreements
Gi Joe
Going To Work
Grandmother's Fable
Guam
Handmade In Laos
Hiding At Home
Hoarding
Homesick
The Honda Revolution
Honeymoon
The House On Tu Do Street
I Was Caught
In The American Museum Of Natural History
Incoming
Inside Our Courtyard
Into The Airport
Invasion
Jeannette
Jobs
Johnnie Walker To The Rescue
Kham Thien, The Street Of The Tea Houses
The Language
Learning English
Learning The War
Leaving China
Letter From A Friend Still In Saigon
Letter From A Soldier
Letter From My Brother
Letter From Vietnam, Hand-carried To France,
Letter To My Mother
Letter To My Sister In Washington, D.c.
Life At Fort Chaffee
The Lion
Looking For Votes
Losing Face
Lost
Love Letters
The Magazine
Marriage To Bao
Matchmakers
Meeting Bao In Hadong
Military Interpreter's Handbook
Money Talks
Mrs. Larsen's Apartment
Muc
Multiples
My Brother's Escape
My Brother's Story Of Quynh Hoa, The Princess Flower
My Career
My Elder Sister
My Eldest Brother, Phuong
My Father's Funeral
My Father's Treasures
My Grandmother
My Mother
My Nurse
My Sixth Brother, Tuoc, Returns To Hanoi
A Name
New York City
Night-listening
The Noodle Cart
The Noodle Cart
The Office
Operation First Steps
Opium Dens And Golden Eggs
Orphanage
Our House In Cholon
Our House In Hadong
Our Married Life
Our Rickshaw Man
Outside My House
Outside The Gates
Packers
Packing
Paper Money
Phnom Penh Dancing Class
Photographs
Pidgin
Politics
Pottery Factories
Protocol
The Ramada Inn
Recalled
Rest And Recreation
Return To Hanoi
Reunion
Riding To School
Riding With My Father
Royal Hotel
The Royal Throne Room
Running To Escape
Sacrifice
Saigon Falls
Saigon Housekeeping
Saigon Market
Saving Face
The School Play
The Scroll
Sea Mountain
The Secret List
Seeing My Third Brother, Bang
Shrine
Soldier's Graffito
Son Nu - Mountain Girls
Southerners And Northerners
Star-crossed
Student Paper
Student's Response
The System
Tapes
Teaching
The Telex Operator
Tet In America
Tet January 31, 1968
To China
To Market, To Market
To The Emperor
Two Deaths
Victory
Viet Minh
Vietnamese Ca Dao
Vietnamese General
Vietnamization
Visiting My Auntie Lan
War In The Streets
Washington Pagoda
Watch
The Wedding
Wedding Night
What We Left, What We Took
The Wheel Of Brie
Winning Their Hearts And Minds
Wordy
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder®

Two friends, an American woman teaching in Saigon in the early 1970s, and a Vietnamese woman who later comes to America, have composed a satisfying collection of one-page "prose-poems," a term that suggests the verses' straightforward narrative. The American describes her apprehensive first walk to work in war-torn Saigon, a class discussion, a G.I. explaining to his girlfriend how much bigger the cabbages are back home, and other experiences related to and remote from the war. The Vietnamese tells more of her family, having grown up in the North, and how the wars against the French ("We especially hated their long noses") and the Americans ("They thought they could buy everything") affected her family and people generally. The authors nicely convey their impressions of life in Vietnam. The writing itself can be enjoyed by all. Recommended. Richard W. Grefrath, Univ. of Nevada Lib., Reno
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