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Title

Vietnamese feminist poems from antiquity to the present : a bilingual anthology / edited by Nguyẽ̂n Thị Minh Hà, Nguyẽ̂n Thị Thanh Bình, and Lady Borton ; with an introduction by Lady Borton ; and a foreword by Grace Paley.

Publication

New York : Feminist Press at the City University of New York ; Hà Nội, Việt Nam : Women's Publishing House, 2007.

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Additional Authors

• Nguyẽ̂n, Thị Minh Hà.
• Borton, Lady.
• Nguyẽ̂n, Thị Thanh Bình, 1955 August 7-

Description

xv, 287 pages; 23 cm.

Series Statement

Defiant muse bilingual poetry series

Uniform Title

Defiant muse.

Subjects

• Feminist poetry, Vietnamese
• Feminism > Poetry
• Feminist poetry, Vietnamese > Translations into English

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

Oral folk poems (Ca Dao) : sources of Viet Nam's national poetic tradition -- The 11th through the 15th centuries : poems in ideographic Chinese script (Han) -- Birth, old age, sickness, death / Dieu Nhan -- Being non-being / Le Thi Y. Lan -- The clarity of morning moonlight / Nguyen Thi Diem Bich -- From a poem for esteemed Nguyen / Nguyen Thi Lo -- Lotus-gathering song / Ngo Chi Lan -- The 16th through the 19th centuries : poems in ideographic Chinese (Han) and in ideographic Vietnamese (Nom) -- From lament of a warrior's waiting wife / Doan Thi Diem -- Sharing a husband betel quid invitation honoring the fan / Ho Xuan Huong -- From lament of loneliness / Le Ngoc Han -- Reaching transverse pass / Nguyen Thi Hinh -- The peasants' words / Mai Am -- The Woodcutters' words / Hue Pho -- From chant of redemption / Nguyen Nhuoc Thi -- In praise of the marble mountains / Bang Nhan -- A self-appraisal / Nhan Khanh -- New lament of a soldier's waiting wife / Suong Nguyet Anh -- The 20th century to the present : poems in romanized Vietnamese script (Quoc Ngu) -- Self-reproach / Cao Ngoc Anh -- Flood relief / Dam Phuong -- Autumn resentment / Tuong Pho -- Old dreams / Van Dai -- The price of rice in Trang an / Mong Tuyet -- Stunned / Mai Dinh -- Queen Trung / Ngan Giang -- Spring afternoon / Anh Tho -- Queen's wreath in two colors / T.T.Kh -- Silkworm thread / Cam Lai -- Her wedding / Tran Thi Tue Mai -- The hawker's song / Le Giang -- Thread of longing, thread of love / Thuy Bac -- My poem / Le Thu -- Calling the Sampan / Hoang Thi Minh Khanh -- The boat and the sea / Xuan Quynh -- Hidden perfume / Phan Thi Thanh Nhan -- Lonely cat / Tram Mong Tu -- Longing / Y. Nhi -- The road repair team at Jade Beauty Mountain / Tran Thi My Hanh -- I don't know / Huong Nghiem -- On your birthday / Doan Thi Tao -- The sun's pearl / Ho Ve -- Waning moon / Phi Tuyet Ba -- Going to the Pagoda / Du Thi Hoan -- Calling autumn / Nguyen Thi Hong -- I return to myself / Lam Thi My Da -- The sand in my village / Le Thi May -- My dove / Nguyen Thi Hong Ngat -- Grass and I / Le Thi Kim -- A meal by a stream / Ha Phuong -- Lulling my child to sleep / Pham Ho Thu -- At the window / Song Hao -- Five white roses / Do Bach Mai -- Harness bells late at night / Le Hoang Anh -- Street memory / Pham Thi Ngoc Lien -- Her husband, my husband / Doan Thi Lam Luyen -- Alone, I stitch the silences / Hoang Viet Hang -- Areca season with no harvest / Nghiem Thi Hang -- Some day we'll turn around / Dinh Thi Thu Van -- Yen Tu / Truong Thi Kim Dung -- The pregnant woman / Tran Thi Khanh Hoi -- The sweetbriar rose / Tuyet Nga -- Dying day by day / Giang Van -- Letter for my lover with the volunteer youth / Thanh Nguyen -- Dispersed / Thu Nguyet -- Raindrops / Khanh Chi -- Dream in the sun / Tran Kim Hoa -- The city in the afternoon rain / Doan Ngoc Thu -- For my father / Nguyen Bao Chan -- The field / Ngan Hoa -- Invitation / Bui Thi Tuyet Mai -- Remains of late afternoon / Phan Huyen Thu -- Late Lotus / Da Thao Phuong -- Whispered confidences for you / Ly Hoang Ly -- Sleepless / Le Thi My Y. -- O rose O snow / Vi Thuy Linh.

ISBN

• 9781558615496 (pbk.)
• 1558615490 (pbk.)
• 9781558615502 (cloth)
• 1558615504 (cloth)

LCCN

2007003929

OCLC

• ocm81943177
• 81943177
• SCSB-5356431

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries