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DRINKING WITH THE ENEMY: These are poems that sing of the horrors of war and of the seductions of war and of the ripples of war into the lives of those who survive them and those who don't, of those who love the survivors, and those who can't. And they are poems that speak to the need to speak and to the need to listen, and of the abiding echoes of love found lingering in the grief of loss.
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Wayne Karlin is an author, editor, and teacher. His books include three works of non-fiction: Wandering Souls: Journeys With the Dead and the Living in Viet Nam (Nation Books, 2009) which was also published in translation in Vietnam as Nh¿ng linh h¿n phiêu d¿t ((Nha Xuat Ban Thong Tan, 2013); War Movies (Curbstone, 2005), Rumors and Stones (Curbstone, 1996), a collection of short fiction, Memorial Days: Viet Nam Stories, 1973-2022, (Texas Tech University Press, 2023); nine novels: The Genizah Publerati, 2024), A Wolf by the Ears (University of Massachusetts Press, 2020), Marble Mountain (Curbstone, 2007), The Wished-for Country (Curbstone, 2002), Prisoners (Curbstone, 1998), US (Henry Holt, 1993), The Extras (Henry Holt, 1989); Lost Armies (Henry Holt, 1988), and Crossover (Harcourt Brace, 1984), (also published in England (Methuen, 1985), and in translation in Sweden, Finland, Italy and Holland), and a poetry chapbook: Drinking with the Enemy, 2026. After service in the United States Marine Corps in the Vietnam War, Karlin co-edited the first collection of Vietnam veterans' fiction from the war, Free Fire Zone: Short Stories by Vietnam Veterans, in 1973, and in 1995 was the co-editor, with Lê Minh Khuê and Truong Vu of the first collection of fiction by Vietnamese and American authors who had been on different sides in the war: The Other Side of Heaven: Postwar Fiction by Vietnamese and American Writers. He became the pro bono American editor of the Curbstone Press Voices from Vietnam series and introduced, adapted and edited novels and short story collections by contemporary Vietnamese authors, as well as a second anthology. Karlin was ALSO one of the script writers, a technical consultant, and acted in the feature film Song of the Stork, a Vietnamese-Singaporean co-production (Megamedia, PTE, BHD Productions, 2002) which has won the Best Feature Film Award at the Milano Film Festival in 2002 and has been shown in other festivals in Belgium, Canada, the U.S. and Thailand. In 2006 and 2009 Karlin was a consulting producer and writer for Shared Weight, a series of hour-long radio programs involving interviews with American and Vietnamese writers, film makers and artists in the U.S. and in Vietnam, and journeys of reconciliation, produced by the Center for Emerging Media for National Public Radio. It was broadcast on over 40 NPR stations and is still in circulation. Karlin retired as Professor Emeritus from the College of Southern Maryland in 2017, after thirty-one years of service.
