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Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 978-1-57131-430-7
Pages: 272
Publish Date: Dec, 2008
Genre: Poetry
Black Dog, Black Night
Contemporary Vietnamese Poetry
BY Nguyen Do
Vietnam—the very word raises many associations for Westerners. Yet while the country has been ravaged by a modern history of colonialism and war, its ancient culture is rich and multilayered, and within it poetry has long had a special place.
A fresh, groundbreaking compendium of contemporary Vietnamese poets.
In this groundbreaking anthology, co-editors and translators Nguyen Do and Paul Hoover present a revelatory portrait of contemporary Vietnamese poetry. What emerges from this conversation of outsiders and insiders, Vietnamese and American voices, is a worldly sensibility descended from the geographical and historical crossroads of Vietnam in the modern era. Reflecting influences as diverse as traditional folk stories and American Modernism, the twenty-one poets included in Black Dog, Black Night, many of whom have never before been published in English, introduce readers to a fresh, uncensored, and utterly unique poetic vision.
