By Nguyen Phan Que Mai, Bruce Weigl
Translated from the Vietnamese through Bruce Weigl and Nguyen Phan Que Mai
Nguyen Phan Que Mai is one of the most enjoyable writers to emerge from post-war Vietnam. Bruce Weigl, pushed through his own reports as a soldier in the course of the struggle in Vietnam, has spent the prior twenty years translating modern Vietnamese poetry. those penetrating poems, released in bilingual English and Vietnamese, construct new bridges among cultures sure jointly by means of struggle and destruction. The mystery of Hoa Sen, Que Mai's first full-length U.S. e-book, shines with craft, artwork, and deeply felt humanity.
I go the Lam River to come to my homeland
where my mom embraces my grandmother's tomb within the rain,
the soil of Nghe An so dry the rice vegetation dangle to rocks.
My mom chews dry corn; hungry, she attempts to forget.
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We collect rice straws to cushion our sleep, our journey long, our dreams still alive. We harvest the season of ripe sun. The Mekong Delta tilts its shore. The immense Trường Sơn range lifts up our voices. The Red River silkens our lives. We have crossed the glorious cities, Paris of light or ancient London. Our souls still drift back to our harbor where our mother’s lullabies sing out, back to the temple roof, curved like the crescent moon. Riverbanks silky with ancient songs, The fragrance of fresh rice straw along country roads adorns our memory.
Her poems have been featured at major international poetry festivals including the First Asia-Pacific Poetry Festival, the Qinghai International Poetry Festival, as well as the International Poetry Festival of Medellin, Colombia. Bruce Weigl was born on January 27, 1949, in Lorain, Ohio. Weigl’s first full-length collection of poems, A Romance, was published in 1979. He is now the author of thirteen poetry collections, and the best-selling memoir The Circle of Hanh. Weigl is past President of the Associated Writing Programs, and has been Chairperson of the judging panel in Poetry for the National Book Award.
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