Black Dog, Black Night Contemporary Vietnamese Poetry

by Hoover, Paul; Do, Nguyen

• ISBN13: 9781571314307
• ISBN10: 157131430X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-02-15
• Publisher: Milkweed Editions

Summary

The poems in Black Dog, Black Night highlight an aspect of Vietnamese verse previously unfamiliar to American readers: its remarkable contemporary voices. Celebrating Vietnam’s diverse and thriving literary culture, the poems collected here combine elements of French Romanticism, Russian Expressionism, American Modernism, and native folk stories into a Vietnamese poetic tradition marked by vivid imagery, powerful emotions, and inventive forms. Included here are 17 postmodern and experimental Vietnamese poets, including the founding editor of Skanky Possum magazine, as well as American poets of Vietnamese descent.

Table of Contents

Black Dog, Black Night
Contemporary Vietnamese Poetry: Invisibility and the New Horizon	p. xi
The Purple Color of Sim Flowers	p. 5
Hanoi Without You	p. 11
The Old Garden	p. 12
Missing My Home River	p. 13
Your Face	p. 17
Sometimes	p. 18
Empty	p. 19
A Beer Joint	p. 20
The Door	p. 21
Nightly Restaurant	p. 22
Three Variations at Sixty-Five Years Old	p. 24
Five Unreal Mornings	p. 26
I Live in Quan Ho Circle	p. 31
The Dieu Bong Leaf	p. 34
Collected Short Poems	p. 37
From The Provincial Gate: The Blind Path	p. 38
New Year	p. 40
The Speechless Light Pole	p. 41
A Man Made of Flesh	p. 42
From The New Horizon (I)	p. 49
From The New Horizon (II)	p. 51
From The New Horizon (III)	p. 53
Love Poem in Late Autumn	p. 61
Song of Myself	p. 63
A Lullaby	p. 65
Untitled Poem [Rain makes dreams]	p. 69
Waking in Hon Gai	p. 70
The Madwoman	p. 71
A Peaceful Madman	p. 72
A Rainy Night	p. 73
A Man Returning Home	p. 74
Black Dog, Black Night	p. 75
A Dog of Stone	p. 76
America	p. 77
Untitled [Where do the stairs lead us]	p. 80
Untitled [The faint, dark hallways]	p. 81
Fever	p. 82
The Smell of Rain or A Poem Belonging to M	p. 83
The Night of Crossing the Pass	p. 84
My Mother's Garden	p. 87
The Huong Giang Evening	p. 88
A Country Place	p. 89
The Grassy Banks of Hong River	p. 93
The Grieving Spring	p. 95
A Woman Knitting	p. 99
Song Lyric	p. 100
Morning	p. 101
Evening	p. 102
Suddenly	p. 105
March 12	p. 106
Andante for the Millennium (2000)	p. 108
Untitled [Up and down a fishing rod]	p. 111
The Fire	p. 112
To Suddnely Remember	p. 113
MiMi	p. 114
A Leaf	p. 115
Wave Oscillation	p. 116
And You Wake Me Up, Ginsberg...	p. 117
This Is Usual	p. 118
A Journey	p. 119
The Goal	p. 120
If I Knew	p. 121
A Soldier Speaks of His Generation	p. 122
Dalat-Once with the Moon	p. 129
Sitting in Sadness, Missing My Mother...	p. 130
Do Len	p. 132
Looking Home from Far Away	p. 133
The Spirits of Cows	p. 143
Women Carrying River Water	p. 144
Exchanging Stars	p. 145
The Light	p. 149
Headache	p. 150
Memory of a Day	p. 151
Morning	p. 152
A Symphony of Friendship	p. 153
For My Lovely Au	p. 155
Mission	p. 156
Untitled [feeling extremely sad]	p. 157
The Unlucky Days	p. 158
Theme I	p. 159
A Lyric Song for Ngoc	p. 160
Silliness	p. 161
With...	p. 162
Borderless Body	p. 165
Don't	p. 166
Self-Portraitist of Signa	p. 167
K-9 Dogs	p. 168
Eating and Feeding	p. 169
A Reactionary Tale	p. 170
After Zigzagging	p. 171
The Most Beautiful Word	p. 172
Eurasiacan	p. 175
The Goddess Gave Me Roses	p. 176
Lacy Light	p. 177
Untitled [Yesterday]	p. 181
Myself	p. 182
When I'm 23	p. 184
If You Know How to Love Me	p. 185
The Father	p. 186
Autumn	p. 187
Freedom	p. 188
Untitled [Sunlight]	p. 189
Recipe 5	p. 193
Scars	p. 194
Placing the accents	p. 195
The book of beginnings	p. 197
The taste	p. 203
Letters	p. 204
Grotto	p. 205
Trail	p. 208
Lying Down Forever with the Meadow	p. 219
The Love Season	p. 221
Hanoi Without You: Afterword	p. 223
Acknowledgments	p. 229
Notes	p. 233
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