- May 1, 2015
The day the Times ranits last column about bridge—posh Old World card game
loved by Phileas Foggand other imperial whites,a louche ruling class
on the wane, hard gamewhose rules I hungrily learnedby heart as a kid
desperate to shedmy grime-dark Vietnamese skin—I, too, crossed a bridge. [End Page 114]
Jenna Le is the author of Six Rivers (NYQ Books, 2011) and A History of the Cetacean American Diaspora (forthcoming from Anchor and Plume Press, 2016). Her poetry, fiction, criticism, and translations appear in AGNI Online, Bellevue Literary Review, Crab Orchard Review, Massachusetts Review, The Village Voice, and elsewhere.