6 Vietnamese Poets - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1880684764 ISBN 13 : 9781880684764

Editeur : Curbstone Press,U.S., 2001

Synopsis

Six Vietnamese Poets brings together for the first time the works of six writers, three women and three men, who came of age during the American War in Vietnam. In their verse, contemporary readers discover the richness and diversity of Vietnamese life and literature from a bold range of poetic styles, from free verse to romantic lyric to traditional classic Vietnamese forms. This bilingual edition features poets from North and South, men and women, combat soldiers and poet-soldiers writing of life in Vietnam through the turbulent final four decades of the twentieth century.

Speaking to the Heart

After a long night up writing poems,
a streak of sunlight leapt into my room.
I ran to the yard,
running as if I were a child,
footprints breaking the earth's first dew,
chest brushing softly the short grass.
Earth and sky seeped into me like wine.
Startled,
I saw my heart in the shape of a ploughshare resting on the earth's shoulder,
the heart thumping, steadily ploughing into time.

--Lam Thi My Da

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

KEVIN BOWEN and NGUYEN BA CHUNG co-translated Distant Road by Nguyen Duy. Bowen is also the author of multiple collections of poetry, including Forms of Prayer at the Hotel Edison and Playing Basketball with the Viet Cong. They both live in Boston.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Curbstone Press,U.S.
• Date d'édition: 2001
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1880684764
• ISBN 13: 9781880684764
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 240
• Éditeur: Chung Nguyen Ba
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible