The main purpose of my photo blog, State of the Union, is to record a changing America as it enters "The Long Emergency”, to borrow a phrase from James Howard Kunstler. With its industries mostly gone, unemployment constantly rising, millions of homes foreclosed and businesses shut down, it should become clear that the country is going through an economic convulsion that will forever change its character. What will emerge from this, I cannot conjecture, but I want to track it at street level, close to the ground, where the bodies are.  Linh Dinh

O poeta vietnamita Linh Dinh, que reside em Filadélfia, dedica-se no momento a registrar o crash norte-americano. Já fez mais de 800 fotos. Sibila publica aqui algumas delas.

 

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Linh Dinh
I was born in Vietnam in 1963, came to the US in 1975, and have also lived in Italy and England. I'm the author of two collections of stories, Fake House (2000) and Blood and Soap (2004), five books of poems, All Around What Empties Out (2003), American Tatts (2005), Borderless Bodies (2006), Jam Alerts (2007) and Some Kind of Cheese Orgy (2009), with a novel, Love Like Hate, scheduled to be released in 2010 by Seven Stories Press. My work has been anthologized in Best American Poetry 2000, 2004, 2007 and Great American Prose Poems from Poe to the Present, among many other places. I'm also the editor of the anthologies Night, Again: Contemporary Fiction from Vietnam (1996) and Three Vietnamese Poets (2001), and translator of Night, Fish and Charlie Parker, the poetry of Phan Nhien Hao (2006). Blood and Soap was chosen by the Village Voice as one of the best books of 2004. My poems and stories have been translated into Italian, Spanish, French, Dutch, German, Portuguese, Japanese, Arabic, Icelandic and Finnish, and I've been invited to read my works all over the U.S., London, Cambridge, Paris, Berlin and Reykjavik. I've also published widely in Vietnamese.