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Black Dog, Black Night
Hoover Paul
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Description for Black Dog, Black Night
Paperback. Editor(s): Do, Nguyen; Hoover, Paul (San Francisco State University). Translator(s): Do, Nguyen; Hoover, Paul (San Francisco State University). BIC Classification: DCF; DCQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 223 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 390.
“A monumental contribution to international literature.” —BLOOMSBURY REVIEW 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, coeditors 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 worldly sensibility descended from the geographical and historical crossroads of Vietnam in the modern era. ... Read more
“A monumental contribution to international literature.” —BLOOMSBURY REVIEW 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, coeditors 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 worldly sensibility descended from the geographical and historical crossroads of Vietnam in the modern era. ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Milkweed Editions United States
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
Minneapolis, United States
ISBN
9781571314307
SKU
V9781571314307
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Ref
99-15
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