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Author : John Balaban
Publisher : Copper Canyon Press
Page : 90 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781556591860
A bilingual anthology of lyric poem-songs from Vietnam's oral folk tradition, this revised edition includes new poems and an eloquent Introduction explicating poetry's importance in Vietnamese culture.
Author : John Balaban
Publisher : Oakville, Ont. : Mosaic Press/Valley Editions
Page : 87 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1980-01-01
Category : Folk poetry, English
ISBN : 0889621187
During the Vietnam war, John Balaban traveled the Vietnamese countryside alone, taping, transcribing, and translating oral folk poems known as "ca dao." No one had ever done this before, and it was Balaban's belief that his project would help end the war.The young American poet walked up to farmers, fishermen, seamstresses, and monks and said, "Sing me your favorite poem," and they did. "Folk poetry is so much a part of everybody's life, my request didn't seem like such a strange proposition," Balaban writes.The resulting collection-the first in any Western -language-became a phenomenon within the American Vietnamese community, but the book slipped out of print after the original publisher folded in the '70s. This revised, bilingual edition includes new poems and an eloquent introduction explicating poetry's importance in Vietnamese culture.
Author : Vuong Dinh
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2019-01-20
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0998885452
Author : John Balaban
Publisher : Unicorn Press (CA)
Page : 87 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1980-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : OCLC:486883797
Texts of Vietnamese folk poetry deal with love, loss, marriage, and the beauty of nature
Author : Sanh Thông Huỳnh
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 458 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Vietnamese poetry
ISBN : UOM:39015037485029
He has organized the poems - which range from ancient to very recent works - around nine main themes that include Vietnamese views of society, responses to foreign influences, and feelings about such universal themes as relationships between men and women, the role of art in life, and conflicts among social classes.
Author : Nguyen Do,Paul Hoover
Publisher : Milkweed Editions
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2011-12-29
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781571318671
“A monumental contribution to international literature.” —BLOOMSBURY REVIEW 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. In this groundbreaking anthology, coeditors 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.
Author : Xuân Hương Hò̂
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : UCSC:32106015191155
Featured on NPR's "Fresh Air" "Sometimes books really do change the world... This one will set in motion a project that may transform Vietnamese culture."--Utne Reader Ho Xuan Huong--whose name translates as "Spring Essence"--is one of the most important and popular poets in Vietnam. A concubine, she became renowned for her poetic skills, writing subtly risque poems which used double entendre and sexual innuendo as a vehicle for social, religious, and political commentary. The publication of Spring Essence is a major historical and cultural event. It features a "tri-graphic" presentation of English translations alongside both the modern Vietnamese alphabet and the nearly extinct calligraphic Nom writing system, the hand-drawn calligraphy in which Ho Xuan Huong originally wrote her poems. It represents the first time that this calligraphy--the carrier of Vietnamese culture for over a thousand years--will be printed using moveable type. From the technology demonstrated in this book scholars worldwide can begin to recover an important part of Vietnam's literary history. Meanwhile, readers of all interests will be fascinated by the poetry of Ho Xuan Huong, and the scholarship of John Balaban. "It's not every day that a poet gets to save a language, although some might argue that is precisely the point of poetry."-- Publishers Weekly "Move over, Sappho and Emily Dickinson."-- Providence Sunday Journal "In the simple landscape of daily objects-jackfruit, river snails, a loom, a chess set, and perhaps most famously a paper fan--Ho found metaphors for sex, which turned into trenchant indictments of the plight of women and the arrogance, hypocrisy and corruption of men... Balaban's deft translations are a beautiful and significant contribution to the West's growing awareness of Vietnam's splendid literary heritage."--The New York Times Book Review The translator, John Balaban, was twice a National Book Award finalist for his own poetry and is one of the preeminent American authorities on Vietnamese literature. During the war Balaban served as a conscientious objector, working to bring war-injured children better medical care. He later returned to Vietnam to record folk poetry. Like Alan Lomax's pioneering work in American music, Balaban was to first to record Vietnam's oral tradition. This important work led him to the poetry of Ho Xuan Huong. Ngo Than Nhan, a computational linguist from NYU's Courant Institute of Mathematics, has digitized the ancient Nom calligraphy.
Author : Hoa Nguyen
Publisher : Wave Books
Page : 137 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2021-04-06
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781950268511
2021 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST FOR POETRY Hoa Nguyen’s latest collection is a poetic meditation on historical, personal, and cultural pressures pre- and post-“Fall-of-Saigon” and comprises a verse biography on her mother, Diep Anh Nguyen, a stunt motorcyclist in an all-woman Vietnamese circus troupe. Multilayered, plaintive, and provocative, the poems in A Thousand Times You Lose Your Treasure are alive with archive and inhabit histories. In turns lyrical and unsettling, her poetry sings of language and loss; dialogues with time, myth and place; and communes with past and future ghosts.
Author : Thị Minh Hà Nguyẽ̂n,Lady Borton,Thị Thanh Bình Nguyẽ̂n
Publisher : Defiant Muse
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Poetry
ISBN : UCSC:32106019091757
The only bi-lingual anthology of Vietnamese Women's Poetry available anywhere.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1983-01-01
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0300040512
Since its publication in the early nineteenth century, this long narrative poem has stood unchallenged as the supreme masterpiece of Vietnamese literature. Thông’s new and absorbingly readable translation (on pages facing the Vietnamese text) is illuminated by notes that give comparative passages from the Chinese novel on which the poem was based, details on Chinese allusions, and literal translations with background information explaining Vietnamese proverbs and folk sayings.
Author : Khế Iêm
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Poetry
ISBN : UOM:39015064303822
Vietnamese New Formalism poetry is a type of modern folk poetry, not the kind of poetry that has become literature and selected for lectures in the schools under intellectual scrutiny, but the kind of poetry that permeates the common folk, reflecting their ordinary daily activities. --Dang Tien.
Author : Library of Congress
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1810 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Subject headings, Library of Congress
ISBN : UCBK:C094878299
Author : Library of Congress. Cataloging Policy and Support Office
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1732 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Subject headings, Library of Congress
ISBN : UOM:39015063397858
Author : Kenneth Rexroth
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Love poetry, American
ISBN : UOM:39015047111508
Author : Neil L. Jamieson
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 447 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2023-11-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780520916586
The American experience in Vietnam divided us as a nation and eroded our confidence in both the morality and the effectiveness of our foreign policy. Yet our understanding of this tragic episode remains superficial because, then and now, we have never grasped the passionate commitment with which the Vietnamese clung to and fought over their own competing visions of what Vietnam was and what it might become. To understand the war, we must understand the Vietnamese, their culture, and their ways of looking at the world. Neil L. Jamieson, after many years of living and working in Vietnam, has written the book that provides this understanding. Jamieson paints a portrait of twentieth-century Vietnam. Against the background of traditional Vietnamese culture, he takes us through the saga of modern Vietnamese history and Western involvement in the country, from the coming of the French in 1858 through the Vietnam War and its aftermath. Throughout his analysis, he allows the Vietnamese—both our friends and foes, and those who wished to be neither—to speak for themselves through poetry, fiction, essays, newspaper editorials and reports of interviews and personal experiences. By putting our old and partial perceptions into this new and broader context, Jamieson provides positive insights that may perhaps ease the lingering pain and doubt resulting from our involvement in Vietnam. As the United States and Vietnam appear poised to embark on a new phase in their relationship, Jamieson's book is particularly timely.