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Black Stars
Ngo Tu Lap
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Description for Black Stars
Paperback. "This is a bilingual edition; the poems have not been previously published in Vietnamese." Translator(s): Collins, Martha. Num Pages: 104 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 10. Weight in Grams: 157.
Simultaneously occupying past, present, and future, Black Stars escapes the confines of time and space, suffusing image with memory, abstraction with meaning, and darkness with abundant light. In these masterful translations, the poems sing out with the kind of wisdom that comes to those who have lived through war, traveled far, and seen a great deal. While the past may evoke village life and the present a postmodern urban world, the poems often exhibit a dual consciousness that allows the poet to reside in both at once. From the universe to the self, we see Lap's landscapes grow wider before ... Read more
Simultaneously occupying past, present, and future, Black Stars escapes the confines of time and space, suffusing image with memory, abstraction with meaning, and darkness with abundant light. In these masterful translations, the poems sing out with the kind of wisdom that comes to those who have lived through war, traveled far, and seen a great deal. While the past may evoke village life and the present a postmodern urban world, the poems often exhibit a dual consciousness that allows the poet to reside in both at once. From the universe to the self, we see Lap's landscapes grow wider before ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Milkweed Editions United States
Number of pages
104
Condition
New
Number of Pages
104
Place of Publication
Minneapolis, United States
ISBN
9781571314598
SKU
V9781571314598
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About Ngo Tu Lap
Ngo Tu Lap has published three collections of poetry in Vietnam, as well as five books of fiction, five books of essays, and many translations from Russian, French and English. He has won seven prizes for his writing, which has been translated into English, French, German, Swedish, Czech, and Thai. A fellow of the Korea Foundation for Advanced Studies at ... Read more
Reviews for Black Stars
"Here is a writer who has seen the worst and written the best. His intensity comes from a gentle tone, and his spare beauty brings us insight sweetened by introspection... All that is ugly is redeemed by his descriptive writing, poetic restraint, and ennobling experience."
Washington Independent Review of Books "Reading Ngo Tu Lap's poems, terrible nostalgia wells up in ... Read more
Washington Independent Review of Books "Reading Ngo Tu Lap's poems, terrible nostalgia wells up in ... Read more