6 Vietnamese Poets

This bilingual edition, Six Vietnamese Poets, brings together for the first time the works of six writers who came to maturity during the American War in Vietnam, three men and three women. What will you find in this book?-the richness and diversity of Vietnamese life and literature from an array of poems that range from free verse to romantic lyric to traditional classic forms. The book features poets from North and South, men and women, combat soldiers and poet-soldiers writing of life in Vietnam through the last four decades of the 20th 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 Kevin Bowen and Nguyen Ba Chung co-translated Distant Road by Nguyen Duy. Bowen is also the author of two books of poetry, Forms of Prayer at the Hotel Edison and Playing Basketball with the Viet Cong. They both live in Boston.Chung, Nguyen Ba is the author of '6 Vietnamese Poets' with ISBN 9781880684764 and ISBN 1880684764.