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Travellers in a Strange Land,  There's a transport of thim in this issue.  What are they doing? Trying to ward off stray dogs, child soldiers, unsettling insights, diarrhea.  Forging temporary alliances.  Attempting to crack the code of an unfamiliar, sometimes threatening culture.  How are they travelling? Through space and time--foraging in the dustbins of memory where their younger selves try to divine something of the strange and estranging world of adults, discovering that memory itself is in motion, buffeted by need, longing, loss, misinformation, misunderstanding, or omission.

In this issue: We await the revolution with Patricia Robertson, avoid projectile party vomit with Mark Anthony Jarman, plunder the past with Carrie Snyder, explore imagery with Shoshanna Wingate, visit the museum at the end of the world with John Metcalf, and scan the heavens with Erling Friis-Baastad. Plus fiction by Mark Rogers, and poetry by M. Travis Lane, Patrick M. Pilarski, Susan Stenson, and Tom Wayman.

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"A Vietnam Story" by Ethan Parke, on teaching English and learning Vietnamese. (Web Exclusive)

During my five weeks in Vietnam I never met another American. I liked it that way. I stayed mostly in Ho Chi Minh City-home to 11 million people. I lived in an 8-room hotel well away from the tourist areas. I ate in basic open-front restaurants, took a motorbike taxi when I wanted to go somewhere, and above all, I met people and talked. I met so many wonderful people-young and old-I could hardly bear to board the plane for the long journey back to Vermont.

Why was I in Vietnam? Everywhere I went I was asked that question and I never had a sufficient answer. read full text

 

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