Nautilus Ep. 1 – Linh Dinh (interviewed by Alexander Wolfheze)

Nautilus Ep. 1 – Linh Dinh – 280725

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(*) Podcast description:

Poet, writer and photographer Linh Dinh, exiled during the infamous 1975 Fall of Saigon, rose to literary fame in the US before becoming a world-wandering dissident legend. ‘Nautilus’ located him back in his native Vietnam, from where he shares his thoughts on rootlessness, exile, alienation and dispossession, reflecting on the Mark of Cain, the Wandering Jew and Homo Aeroporticus - and their antidotes.

Linh Dinh quotes, from his interview with Neonpajamas:

Language is used mostly to disguise and mislead, with whatever of any importance hardly ever addressed, much less probed. Although failing abjectly, of course, I’ve tried to give shape to these unmentionables. … I suggested after a reading that the first poem hasn’t been written, that “poets” are merely preparing the groundwork for a distant poetry, which of necessity must be unspeakably devastating. We’re in the prehistory of poetry.

In the US, nearly all self-identified rebels only rebel in prescribed and heavily manipulated ways, which makes them pawns of the very people they think they’re rebelling against. History will retch in disgust at the cowardly collusion of our “intellectuals.”

(*) Links to be pinned:

to subscribe to Linh Dinh’s Substack:
substack.com/@linhdinh

to donate to Linh Dinh’s photoblog:
linhdinhphotos.blogspot.com

to read Alexander Wolfheze’s essay ‘The Guardian of the Threshold’
about Homo Aeroporticus as a geopolitical factor:
geopolitika.ru/en/article/guardian-threshold

to read the Vietnamese version of Alexander Wolfheze’s essay ‘The Heresiarchs’: geopolitika.ru/vi/article/su-tro-lai-cua-moirai-phan-1