Distant road : selected poems of Nguyen Duy

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Distant road : selected poems of Nguyen Duy

translated by Kevin Bowen and Nguyen Ba Chung

Curbstone Press, c1999

  • : pbk

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Parallel texts in Vietnamese and English

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Widely considered the most important poet of his generation, Duy began his career as a writer on the battlefields of Vietnam. The power of his highly-crafted poetry stems from its distinct sense of time and place, his unrelenting honesty, and his deep compassion. Born into a peasant family, Duy captures the essence of village life in his poetry. Whether it is love, family, war, present or lost friends, or his own self-mockery, his poetry is infused with an understanding of hardship and suffering. Many of his love poems have become classics in Vietnam.

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  • NCID
    BB15122035
  • ISBN
    • 1880684616
  • LCCN
    99027584
  • Country Code
    us
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    engvie
  • Original Language Code
    vie
  • Place of Publication
    Willimantic, CT
  • Pages/Volumes
    xxxi, 257 p.
  • Size
    22 cm
  • Classification
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