Tilting the Continent

by Lim, Shirley Geok-Lin

• ISBN13: 9780898232066
• ISBN10: 0898232066
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-08-01
• Publisher: New Rivers Pr

Summary

Is a first-of-its-kind multi-genre collection of literary work by residents of the U. S. with Southeast Asian heritage.

Table of Contents

Introduction	ix
Shirley Geok-lin Lim
Cheng Lok Chua
Family
The Immigrants' Son	3	(2)
Joseph O. Legaspi
The Mother	5	(1)
Joseph O. Legaspi
Killing a Chicken	6	(2)
Joseph O. Legaspi
Christmas '95	8	(4)
Isabelle Thuy Pelaud
My Mother Is Bui Doi	12	(2)
Lan Duong
This Face	14	(2)
Joseph O. Legaspi
Father's Duties	16	(4)
Cuong H. Lam
My Hmong Father	20	(1)
Kay Vu-Lee
The Pilgrimage	21	(11)
Minh-Mai Hoang
At 120 over 80	32	(2)
Aurora Harris
Wedlock	34	(1)
Vince Gotera
brother 2	35	(2)
Lan Duong
Presentacion Vega Gotico	37	(1)
M.G. Sorongon
Reincarnate	38	(1)
LeAna B. Gloor
Uncle Died for His Country	39	(1)
Hanh Hoang
Relations	40	(5)
Mayli Vang
Community
Spell	45	(2)
M. G. Sorongon
Generations of Laundry	47	(11)
Ira Sukrungruang
Wrestling	58	(1)
Jon Pineda
Famine All Around	59	(4)
Sophie Nguyen
Keeping up with the Nguyens	63	(12)
Hanh Hoang
Eating
My War With Slugs	75	(2)
Soul Choj Vang
Floating Eden	77	(1)
Ruth Pe Palileo
Legacy	78	(3)
Jora Trang
Chilies and Dried Anchovies	81	(7)
Shirley Geok-lin Lim
Mother Is Converting the Church with Eggrolls	88	(1)
Oliver de la Paz
My Father's Pho	89	(1)
Kim Ly Bui-Burton
Presence	90	(1)
Anh Quynh Bui
Rice	91	(2)
Aurora Harris
Making Marmalade	93	(4)
BeeBee Tan-Beck
Love and Gender
You Bring Out the Vietnamese Woman in Me	97	(3)
Anh Phuong-Nguyen
Smoke	100	(6)
Chachoua Victoria Xiong
Colloquial Love	106	(2)
Anh Quynh Bui
Finding Touch: A Personal Essay	108	(7)
Noel Alumit
A Day at the A & P	115	(3)
Kay Vu-Lee
Hmong Women	118	(3)
Mayli Vang
The Different Past
Open Hands and the Man with One Leg Shorter	121	(2)
Pos Moua
Passing at the Canyon	123	(1)
Pos Moua
The Old Man by the Road They Go	124	(2)
Pos Moua
The People beneath a Moon by the River	126	(1)
Pos Moua
The Ritual before Crossing the River	127	(2)
Pos Moua
Reflected Light	129	(5)
Hilary Tham
The Driver Conrado's Penitent Life	134	(3)
Eugene Gloria
Tilting the Continent
The Family with Three Madonnas	137	(1)
Oliver de la Paz
The Healing	138	(2)
Lan Duong
Hilo	140	(1)
LeAna B. Gloor
Mole on My Foot	141	(2)
Aurora Harris
Infected	143	(12)
Marianne Villanueva
Rio Grande	155	(2)
U Sam Oeur
Land of the Big Fruit	157	(12)
Toni Mesina
Returnings
Gifts for My Family	169	(2)
Jade Quang Huynh
Ang Tunay na Lalaki Receives a Package from Home	171	(2)
Nick Carbo
The Terno	173	(2)
Aurora Harris
Granddaughter	175	(10)
Fiona Cheong
The Maid	185	(4)
Eugene Gloria
Becoming American
Expurgation	189	(3)
Elizabeth Gordon
Waiting for Orders	192	(5)
Geronimo G. Tagatac
Sacrifice Is the Key to Heaven	197	(2)
M. G. Sorongon
New Territory: A Sestina	199	(2)
M. G. Sorongon
Quiet Letters	201	(14)
Pornsak Pichetshote
It Will Happen in a Car	215	(1)
Mahani Zubaidy
Manny's Climb	216	(6)
Vince Gotera
Sports and Other Stuff	222	(6)
Anna Alves
Opossums and Thieving Pelicans	228	(6)
Paulino Lim Jr.
Scavenging on Double Bluff	234	(2)
Shirley Geok-lin Lim
Seaweeds	236	(1)
Shirley Geok-lin Lim
Contributors	237