Kevin Paul Bowen

Six Vietnamese Poets

Six Vietnamese Poets brings together for the first time the works of six writers, threewomen and three men,who came of age during the American War in Vietnam. In their verse, contemporary readersdiscover the richness and diversity of Vietnamese life and literature from a bold range poetic styles fro...

A Grace Paley Reader: Stories, Essays, and Poetry

"A writer like Paley," writes George Saunders, “comes along and brightens language up again, takes it aside and gives it a pep talk, sends it back renewed, so it can do its job, which is to wake us up.” Best known for her inimitable short stories, Grace Paley was also an enormously talented essayist...

Higher Education in the Digital Age (The William G. Bowen Memorial Series in Higher Education)

Two of the most visible and important trends in higher education today are its exploding costs and the rapid expansion of online learning. Could the growth in online courses slow the rising cost of college and help solve the crisis of affordability? In this short and incisive book, William G. Bowen,...

Two Rivers: New Writing from the Vietnamese Diaspora (Manoa: Pacific Journal of International Writing)

Two Rivers features new fiction, poetry, and essays from Vietnamese and Vietnamese American writers. Their contribution to America's vitality has never been greater, and their views about the war, their resettlement, and the future never more diverse. A period of reexamination, reflection, and new d...

A Time Far Past: A Novel of Viet Nam (Vietnamese Literature)

This epic novel presents a sweeping portrait of war and peace in northern Vietnam from the defeat of the French to the mid-1980s. The story follows the odyssey of Giang Minh Sai, the son of a Confucian scholar in the rural Red River delta, from his early childhood through his decorated service durin...

Wil's Bones

Archaeologist Wil Wilson turns the world upside down when he discovers the bones of Jesus. The contemporary adventure begins with the Secretary of State's visit to Israel being less than a week away. Islamic fundamentalists, hoping to thwart the peace process, have threatened to kill the Secretary a...

Writing between the Lines: An Anthology on War and Its Social Consequences

In this work, over 40 combat veterans, nurses, relief workers, journalists and other men and women who have seen the face of war reflect on their experiences. It includes poetry, fiction and critical prose on war and its legacy, from Vietnamese, American and Central American authors.

Mountain River: Vietnamese Poetry from the Wars, 1948-1993

An anthology that attests to the power of art to transform the trauma of war. This powerful and moving bilingual collection affirms the importance of poetry in the formation and perpetuation of Vietnamese national identity. A valuable survey of Vietnamese poetry written since World War II.

Two Rivers

Eight True Maps of the West: Poems

Wil's Bones

The Third Funeral