Distant road
Subtitle: selected poems of Nguyen Duy
By: translated by Kevin Bowen and Nguyen Ba Chung.
Contributors: Nguyen, Chung Ba.; Bowen, Kevin, 1947-
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Curbstone Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Willimantic, CT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 257
Description: "Widely considered the most important poet of his generation, Duy began his career as a writer on the battlefields of Vietnam. The power of his highly-crafted poetry stems from its distinct sense of time and place, his unrelenting honesty, and his deep compassion. Born into a peasant family, Duy captures the essence of village life in his poetry. Whether it is love, family, war, present or lost friends, or his own self-mockery, his poetry is infused with an understanding of hardship and suffering.

Many of his love poems have become classics in Vietnam."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Parallel texts in Vietnamese and English.