Mountain River

Vietnamese Poetry from the Wars, 1948-1993
Erscheinungsjahr 1998
ISBN: 978-1-55849-141-0
Verlag: Univ of Chicago behalf of University of Mass

Buch, Englisch, 304 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 130 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 404 g

Reihe: UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS PRESS

This powerful and moving bilingual collection affirms the importance of poetry in the formation and perpetuation of Vietnamese national Identity. These poems testify to the centrality of war in Vietnamese history and experience over the past fifty years. Beginning thw Ho Chi Minh in the 1940s and moving forward in time to Nguyen Quang Thieu in the 1990s, the book presents significant poetry reflecting the thoughts and feeling of the major Vietnamese writers who lived through many years of war, first with the French and later with the Americans. Mountain River will serve as a valuable introductory survey of Vietnamese poetry written since World War II and as an example of the integral role of poets and poetry in Vietnamese culture.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bowen, Kevin

Über Autor(innen)

Kevin Bowen is director of thye William Joiner Center for the Study of War and Social Consequences at the University of Massachusetts, Boston. He is contranslator of Le Luu's A Time Far Past (University of Massachusetts Press, 1997). Nguyen da Chung is an associate of the Jointer Center and cotranslator of A Time Far Past. Bruce Weigl is professor of English at Pennsylvania State University and cotranslator of Poems from Captured Documents (University of Massachusetts Press, 1994), a collection of Vietnamese soldiers' poetry.