From the Book - First edition.
from Child of the enemy / Quan Barry --
from The father of all things / Tom Bissell --
To a war correspondent ; Recollection / Star Black --
Lanterns ; Falling / Lily Katherine Bowen --
Air page. Petroleum ; Kapok ; Cork ; Ash ; Silk / Emily Brandt --
Split ; Los Angeles, Manila, Đà Nẵng / Cathy Linh Che --
Year of the hare / Teresa Mei Chuc --
Premetheus ; Year without dusting ; Achilles, Veterans' Hospital (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) / Brandon Courtney --
Viet Cong University ; Prisoner with a dictionary / Linh Dinh --
Memories of my ghost brother / Heinz Insu Fenkl --
Practical joke ; from The ticking is the bomb / Nick Flynn --
The long shadow of war / Terrance Hayes --
In the war / Jennifer Jean --
How I didn't find my father's war in Vietnam / Adam Karlin --
The book I didn't write / Elmo Keep --
The stories they carried / Andrew Lam --
The gangster we are all looking for / Lê Thị Diễm Thúy --
Love and honor and pity and pride and compassion and sacrifice / Nam Le --
Part of memory is forgetting / T.K. Lê --
July in Vietnam ; Aerial / Brian Ma --
How to move ; Bedtime story #1 / Sjohnna McCray --
Missing ; On the line ; Blue raft / Gardner McFall --
The things they carried that we carry ; from Hung lyres / Philip Metres --
Field ; A new Việt Nam / Mộng-Lan --
The Cloverleaf ; Phobias / Juan J. Morales --
Trouble man / John Murillo --
Women from the 1960s (I) ; A bullet fired into the night / Njô Tụ' Lập --
The good immigrant student / Bich Minh Nguyen --
Agent Orange poem ; Independence Day 2010 / Hoa Nguyen --
Buffet etiquette ; Cockfight ; Tater tot hot-dish / Hieu Minh Nguyen --
The wheel of history / Phong Nguyen --
The boat girl ; My mother ; Quảng trị / Nguyen Phan Que Mai --
The examples ; My father's laughter ; July ; August / Nguyễn Quang Thiều --
Mekong River ; Packing poem / Vaan Nguyen --
April 30 / Viet Thanh Hguyen --
Lavinia writing in the sand ; A history of bamboo / Deborah Paredez --
Father comes home from the wars. Part 1 ; Part 3 ; Part 7: Playing chopsticks ; Part 11: His eternal return
The fall of Saigon / Andrew X. Pham --
Motherland / Aimee Phan --
War before memory : a Vietnamese American protest organizer's history against Miss Saigon / Bao Phi --
The boneyard / Ben Quick --
Jersey City / Ashley Romano --
Vanellinae ; What I know of doorways ; Love / Josephine Rowe --
Yellow flare ; Mall flare / Levi Rubeck --
Underground in Vietnam / Karen Russell --
Invasion / Brian Schwartz --
Kampuchean skin ; Left-behind looks for the apsaras ; When the war was over / Monica Sok --
Self-immolation ; Heirloom / Paul Tran --
The silent opening ; war dreams / Julie Thi Underhill --
Light from a burning citadel ; I the body of Laos and all my UXOs ; When the mountains rose beneath us, we became the valley / Mai Der Vang --
Twenty two ; The year of the pig ; Flower bomb / Vuong Quoc Vu --
The weight of our living : on hope, fire escapes, & visible desperation / Ocean Vuong --
A soundtrack of the war / Zachary Watterson --
Fisherman's hang ; Saint Michael, with Agent Orange / Adam Wiedewitsch --
War music awakening for soldier's daughter ; Song of napalm (by Bruce Weigl) / Hanh Nguyen Willbound --
Two days home ; In my father's words, 1969 / Matthew Wimberley --
The man in the jeep / Karen Spears Zacharias.