| Product Summary | | Format: Paperback | | ISBN: 9781880684764 | | Publisher: Curbstone Press | | Publish Date: 4/1/2002 | | Buy.com Sku: 30714642 | | Item#: RJJCS4 | | Dimensions (in Inches) 8.5H x 5.75L x 0.75T | | Pages: 240 |
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| | | | 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 HeartAfter a long night up writing poems,
a streak of sunlight leapt into my room.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, 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."
Annotation:
The six poets whose work is collected here came of age in Vietnam during its war with the United States. From both the North and the South, three men and three women share their experiences.
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Chapter One
Nguoi Dàn Bà Ngoi Dan
Giua chieu lanh
môt nguoi dàn bà ngoi dan bên cua so
ve vua nhan nai vua vôi vã
nhan nai nhu the dó là viêc phai làm suot doi
vôi vã nhu the dó là lan sau chót
Không tho dài
không mim cuoi
chi dang giu kín dau thuong
hay là hanh phúc
lòng chi dang tràn day niem tin
hay là ngo vuc
Không môt lan nào chi ngang nhìn lên
Chi dang qua nhung phút giây truoc lan gap mat
hay sau buoi chia ly
Trong mui dan kia an giau niem hân hoan hay noi lo âu
trong dôi mat kia là chán chuong hay hy vong
Giua chieu lanh
môt nguoi dàn b Click to read more...
Chapter One
Nguoi Dàn Bà Ngoi Dan
Giua chieu lanh
môt nguoi dàn bà ngoi dan bên cua so
ve vua nhan nai vua vôi vã
nhan nai nhu the dó là viêc phai làm suot doi
vôi vã nhu the dó là lan sau chót
Không tho dài
không mim cuoi
chi dang giu kín dau thuong
hay là hanh phúc
lòng chi dang tràn day niem tin
hay là ngo vuc
Không môt lan nào chi ngang nhìn lên
Chi dang qua nhung phút giây truoc lan gap mat
hay sau buoi chia ly
Trong mui dan kia an giau niem hân hoan hay noi lo âu
trong dôi mat kia là chán chuong hay hy vong
Giua chieu lanh
môt nguoi dàn bà ngoi dan bên cua so
duoi chân chi
cuôn len nhu qua cau xanh
dang lan nhung vòng châm rãi.
Woman Knitting
In the chill afternoon
a woman sits by a window, knitting.
She seems so patient and so anxious.
Patient, for she has the rest of her life.
Anxious, for these may be her last moments.
No sighs.
No smiles.
Is it grief she hides,
or happiness?
Is she filled with hope,
or doubt?
She never looks up.
Does she look back to first meeting,
or to last parting?
Does her knitting hide sorrow or joy?
Or is it hope or worry in her eyes?
In the chill afternoon
a woman sits by a window, knitting.
Under her feet,
a roll of wool, a coiled blue globe,
slowly unravels its circles.
Thu Cho Em
Tang Nhon
Giua bân biu cuôc doi thành pho
nhu moi nguoi có noi vui riêng
nhu moi nguoi riêng môt lo toan
cha me bân, các em cung bân
anh chi thuong di vang
mà moi lan ngoi lai nhac ve em
lai nhu thay ca nhà chung nhau ý nghi.
Giua khu rung cua em và hàng cây thành pho
giua can ham cua em và can nhà ta o
giua bua rau rung em an voi trái cà chín do
giua khau súng cua em và trang sách hôm nay
em oi em biet chung nào gan bó.
Các cháu da lon lên
qua B52 qua bom dan ke thù
chiec áo moi, nhung bài tho cung moi
các cháu tuu truong vào mùa thu
trong câu hát nho câu là bô dôi
mu tai bèo ôm khuôn mat tre tho.
Các cháu se lon lên
nhung mùa thu sau
nhung tháng nam sau rông dài dat nuoc
tuoi tre cua chúng roi se khác
nhung nam này tuoi tre chúng ta
nhung phai dâu chi nhung bài tho
nhung phai dâu chi nhung câu ca
còn nhac lai cánh rung và trân dánh.
Hà Nôi, 1973 | Letter to a Younger Brother
To Nhon
In the busy life of the city,
Each person has his or her own happiness,
Each person has his or her own worry.
Parents are busy, children are busy.
We who are often away
every time we are together, we think of you.
And share our worry.
Between the trees of your jungles and the trees of our city,
Between your camouflaged shelter and our home,
Between your meals of wild greens and our red ripe tomatoes,
Between your rifle and this page,
O brother, how tight the bond.
Our nieces and nephews are growing up
under B52s, enemy bombs, and gunfire.
They wear new shirts, read new poems.
When they start school in autumn
in their songs they'll see their uncles as bo doi,
sing of the tai beo hats hugging their innocent faces.
They will grow up,
and in the autumns to come,
in the months and years ahead, in the vastness of the country,
their youth will be different
from ours.
Not just because of the poems.
Not just because of the songs
still celebrating the jungle and the battles.
Ha Noi, 1973 |
Dau Chi Là Con Mua
Mua on ào mùa ha.
mua diu mem mùa xuân
tháng ba ngày mua nhuan
vòm hoa xoan tím ngát.
Dat can trong khô khát
bong mát lành sau mua
cây lá xanh vuon trua
lai nong nàn hoi tho.
Anh có còn luôn nho
cái mùa mua dau tiên
con suoi nho bên them
bong con cào mua lu.
Anh có còn luôn nho
mùa dông mua trang doi
hoa lau pho phat gió
Doc dài và suoi Dôi.
Hay chi mình em thôi
tháng nam dài van nho
nhu nho ve dong lúa
nhu nho ve mat troi
Chac ben và ruc ro
thân gan và xa xôi.
Em chang dám quên dâu
nhung gì mình dã có
de làm nên ngon lua
suot môt doi hai ta
dau chi là con mua
em làm sao quên duoc.
1976 |
Excerpted from 6 Vietnamese Poets by Nguyen Ba Chung & Kevin Bowen. Copyright © 2002 by Ý Nhi, Nguyen Khoa Diem, Lâm Thi My Da, Nguyen Duc Mâu, Xuân Quynh, Pham Tien Duât. Excerpted by permission. All rights reserved. No part of this excerpt may be reproduced or reprinted without permission in writing from the publisher.
Copyright © 2002 Ý Nhi, Nguyen Khoa Diem, Lâm Thi My Da, Nguyen Duc Mâu, Xuân Quynh, Pham Tien Duât.
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