Black Dog, Black Night: Contemporary Vietnamese Poetry
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, co-editors 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...
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The poems in Black Dog, Black Night highlight an aspect of Vietnamese verse previously unfamiliar to American readers: its remarkable contemporary voices. Celebrating Vietnam’s diverse and thriving literary culture, the poems collected here combine elements of French Romanticism, Russian Expressionism, American Modernism, and native folk stories into a Vietnamese poetic tradition marked by vivid imagery, powerful emotions, and inventive forms. Included here are 17 postmodern and experimental Vietnamese poets, including the founding editor of Skanky Possum magazine, as well as American poets of Vietnamese descent.
Black Dog, Black Night Nguyen DoContemporary Vietnamese Poetry: Invisibility and the New Horizon xi Huu Loan (1916-)The Purple Color of Sim Flowers 5 Te Hanh (1920-)Hanoi Without You 11The Old Garden 12Missing My Home River 13 Van Cao (1923-1992)Your Face 17Sometimes 18Empty 19A Beer Joint 20The Door 21Nightly Restaurant 22Three Variations at Sixty-Five Years Old 24Five Unreal Mornings 26 Hoang Cam (1922-)I Live in Quan Ho Circle 31The Dieu Bong Leaf 34 Tran Dan (1924-2001)Collected Short Poems 37From The Provincial Gate: The Blind Path 38New Year 40The Speechless Light Pole 41A Man Made of Flesh 42 Dang Dinh Hung (1924-1990)From The New Horizon (I) 49From The New Horizon (II) 51From The New Horizon (III) 53 Xuan Quynh (1942-1988)Love Poem in Late Autumn 61Song ofMyself 63A Lullaby 65 Hoang Hung (1942-)Untitled Poem [Rain makes dreams] 69Waking in Hon Gai 70The Madwoman 71A Peaceful Madman 72A Rainy Night 73A Man Returning Home 74Black Dog, Black Night 75A Dog of Stone 76America 77Untitled [Where do the stairs lead us] 80Untitled [The faint, dark hallways] 81Fever 82The Smell of Rain or A Poem Belonging to M 83The Night of Crossing the Pass 84 Nguyen Khoa Diem (1943-)My Mother's Garden 87The Huong Giang Evening 88A Country Place 89 Tran Vu Mai (1944-1991)The Grassy Banks of Hong River 93The Grieving Spring 95 Y Nhi (1944-)A Woman Knitting 99Song Lyric 100Morning 101Evening 102 Thanh Thao (1946-)Suddenly 105March 12 106Andante for the Millennium (2000) 108Untitled [Up and down a fishing rod] 111The Fire 112To Suddnely Remember 113MiMi 114A Leaf 115Wave Oscillation 116And You Wake Me Up, Ginsberg... 117This Is Usual 118A Journey 119The Goal 120If I Knew 121A Soldier Speaks of His Generation 122 Nguyen Duy (1947-)Dalat-Once with the Moon 129Sitting in Sadness, Missing My Mother... 130Do Len 132Looking Home from Far Away 133 Nguyen Quang Thieu (1957-)The Spirits of Cows 143Women Carrying River Water 144Exchanging Stars 145 Nguyen Do (1959-)The Light 149Headache 150Memory of a Day 151Morning 152A Symphony of Friendship 153For My Lovely Au 155Mission 156Untitled [feeling extremely sad] 157The Unlucky Days 158Theme I 159A Lyric Song for Ngoc 160Silliness 161With... 162 Linh Dinh (1963-)Borderless Body 165Don't 166Self-Portraitist of Signa 167K-9 Dogs 168Eating and Feeding 169A Reactionary Tale 170After Zigzagging 171The Most Beautiful Word 172 Hoa Nguyen (1967-)Eurasiacan 175The Goddess Gave Me Roses 176Lacy Light 177 Nhat Le (1968-)Untitled [Yesterday] 181Myself 182When I'm 23 184If You Know How to Love Me 185The Father 186Autumn 187Freedom 188Untitled [Sunlight] 189 Truong Tran (1969-)Recipe 5 193Scars 194Placing the accents 195The book of beginnings 197 Mong-Lan (1970-)The taste 203Letters 204Grotto 205Trail 208 Vi Thuy Linh (1980-)Lying Down Forever with the Meadow 219The Love Season 221 Paul HooverHanoi Without You: Afterword 223Acknowledgments 229Notes 233
