Magazine. Poetry. Literary Nonfiction. An eclectic collection including translations Che Quianzi, Yu Jian, Jia Wei, Ko Un, Nguyen Quoc Chanh by Wang Ping, Gary Gach, Ron Padgett, Lewis Warsh, Mong-Lan, and James Brook (translator of eight political poems by Benjam Péret from the French); fiction by Peter Orner; poems from some 40 other poets, including Gustaf Sobin, Eleni Sikelianos, Laura Mullen, Eileen Myles, James Tate, Maxine Chernoff, Nathaniel Tran, and Richard Silberg; and, a seminal essay on "The Modernization of Vietnamese Poetry" by Hoang Hung, critical reading for anyone interested in the intersection of politics and poetry in contemporary Vietnam.
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