Watermark

Watermark (1998) is an anthology of contemporary Vietnamese-American poetry and prose, edited by Barbara Tran, Monique T.D. Truong, and Luu Truong Khoi.

Published by The Asian American Writer's Workshop, Watermark features poetry and prose by an emerging generation of Vietnamese American writers, many of whom would go on to publish their first works. Watermark includes:

• from "Live by water, die by water" (prose) by Huynh Sanh Thong
• "The Brochure" (poetry) by Christian Langworthy
• "Up Over Boulder Hill" (prose) by Dao Strom
• "Letter to My Bed" (poetry) by Linh Dinh
• "History" (poetry) by Thuong Vuong-Riddick
• "Seeds" (prose) by Monique T.D. Truong
• "Slow Tribe" (poetry) by Linh Dinh
• "Lost and Found" (poetry) by Truong Tran
• "Sounding Sadec" (poetry) by Mộng-Lan
• "Nobody Knows" (prose) by Quang Bao
• from "Rosary" (poetry) by Barbara Tran
• "A Pressing Romance" (poetry) by Diep Khac Tran
• "Fritz Glatman" (poetry) by Linh Dinh
• "Pre-Dahmer" (poetry) by Trac Vu
• "Tale of Apricot" (prose) by Minh Duc Nguyen
• "Sestina" (poetry) by Christian Langworthy
• "The White Horse" (prose) by Nguyen Ba Trac, trans. Nguyen Qui Duc
• "Untitled" (poetry) by lê thị diễm thúy
• "Big girl, Little girl" (poetry) by lê thi diem thúy
• "Chickens" (prose) by Dao Strom
• from "When You're Old Enough" (prose) by Maura Donohue
• "Show and Tell" (prose) by Andrew Lam
• "The Dead" (poetry) by Linh Dinh
• "Know by Heart" (poetry) by Trinh T. Minh-ha
• from Monkey Bridge (prose) by Lan Cao
• "M.I.A." (poetry) by Bao-Long Chu
• "Grandma's Tales" (prose) by Andrew Lam
• "Sister Play" (poetry) by Lan Duong
• "Night Shelter" (prose) by Nguyen Qui Duc
• "The Long Biên Bridge" (poetry) by Mộng-Lan
• "Golden Gate" (poetry) by Mộng-Lan
• "Prints" (poetry) by Christian Langworthy
• "Western Music" (prose) by Linh Dinh
• "Auspicious" (poetry) by Bich Minh Nguyen
• "Placing the Accents" (poetry) by Truong Tran
• "Mango" (prose) by Christian Langworthy
• "Recipe 3" (poetry) by Truong Tran
• "Recipe 5" (poetry) by Truong Tran
• "The Bitterness of Bodies We Bear" (poetry) by Bao-Long Chu
• "The Dill Peddler" (prose) by Thanhha Lai

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