Author: John Balaban
Publisher: Oakville, Ont. : Mosaic Press/Valley Editions
ISBN: 9780889621183
Category : Folk poetry, English
Languages : en
Pages : 87
Book Description
During the Vietnam war, John Balaban traveled the Vietnamese countryside alone, taping, transcribing, and translating oral folk poems known as "ca dao." No one had ever done this before, and it was Balaban's belief that his project would help end the war.The young American poet walked up to farmers, fishermen, seamstresses, and monks and said, "Sing me your favorite poem," and they did. "Folk poetry is so much a part of everybody's life, my request didn't seem like such a strange proposition," Balaban writes.The resulting collection-the first in any Western -language-became a phenomenon within the American Vietnamese community, but the book slipped out of print after the original publisher folded in the '70s. This revised, bilingual edition includes new poems and an eloquent introduction explicating poetry's importance in Vietnamese culture.
Ca Dao Vietnam
Author: John Balaban
Publisher: Oakville, Ont. : Mosaic Press/Valley Editions
ISBN: 9780889621183
Category : Folk poetry, English
Languages : en
Pages : 87
Book Description
During the Vietnam war, John Balaban traveled the Vietnamese countryside alone, taping, transcribing, and translating oral folk poems known as "ca dao." No one had ever done this before, and it was Balaban's belief that his project would help end the war.The young American poet walked up to farmers, fishermen, seamstresses, and monks and said, "Sing me your favorite poem," and they did. "Folk poetry is so much a part of everybody's life, my request didn't seem like such a strange proposition," Balaban writes.The resulting collection-the first in any Western -language-became a phenomenon within the American Vietnamese community, but the book slipped out of print after the original publisher folded in the '70s. This revised, bilingual edition includes new poems and an eloquent introduction explicating poetry's importance in Vietnamese culture.
Publisher: Oakville, Ont. : Mosaic Press/Valley Editions
ISBN: 9780889621183
Category : Folk poetry, English
Languages : en
Pages : 87
Book Description
During the Vietnam war, John Balaban traveled the Vietnamese countryside alone, taping, transcribing, and translating oral folk poems known as "ca dao." No one had ever done this before, and it was Balaban's belief that his project would help end the war.The young American poet walked up to farmers, fishermen, seamstresses, and monks and said, "Sing me your favorite poem," and they did. "Folk poetry is so much a part of everybody's life, my request didn't seem like such a strange proposition," Balaban writes.The resulting collection-the first in any Western -language-became a phenomenon within the American Vietnamese community, but the book slipped out of print after the original publisher folded in the '70s. This revised, bilingual edition includes new poems and an eloquent introduction explicating poetry's importance in Vietnamese culture.
Ca Dao Việt Nam
Author: John Balaban
Publisher: Unicorn Press (CA)
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 87
Book Description
Texts of Vietnamese folk poetry deal with love, loss, marriage, and the beauty of nature
Publisher: Unicorn Press (CA)
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 87
Book Description
Texts of Vietnamese folk poetry deal with love, loss, marriage, and the beauty of nature
Vietnamese Folk Poetry
Author: John Balaban
Publisher: Copper Canyon Press
ISBN: 1556591861
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 90
Book Description
A bilingual anthology of lyric poem-songs from Vietnam's oral folk tradition, this revised edition includes new poems and an eloquent Introduction explicating poetry's importance in Vietnamese culture.
Publisher: Copper Canyon Press
ISBN: 1556591861
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 90
Book Description
A bilingual anthology of lyric poem-songs from Vietnam's oral folk tradition, this revised edition includes new poems and an eloquent Introduction explicating poetry's importance in Vietnamese culture.
Ca Dao Vịêt Nam
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781556591860
Category : Folk poetry, Vietnamese
Languages : en
Pages : 73
Book Description
Presents nearly fifty short Vietnamese lyrical poems known as "ca dao," collected from villagers near the end of the Vietnam War by American poet and translator John Balaban, and includes an introduction on the genre's origins, singers, language, and prosody. Presented in English and Vietnamese.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781556591860
Category : Folk poetry, Vietnamese
Languages : en
Pages : 73
Book Description
Presents nearly fifty short Vietnamese lyrical poems known as "ca dao," collected from villagers near the end of the Vietnam War by American poet and translator John Balaban, and includes an introduction on the genre's origins, singers, language, and prosody. Presented in English and Vietnamese.
: CA Dao: a Survey of Vietnamese Folk Poems
Author: Vuong DINH
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781792392085
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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ISBN: 9781792392085
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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Love Lament
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ISBN:
Category : Sadness
Languages : en
Pages :
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Category : Sadness
Languages : en
Pages :
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The Carp
Author:
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Category : Carp
Languages : en
Pages :
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Category : Carp
Languages : en
Pages :
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Ca dao Vietname : vietnamese folk poetry
Author: Ca dao vietnam. English
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781556591860
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
During the Vietnam war, John Balaban traveled the Vietnamese countryside alone, taping, transcribing, and translating oral folk poems known as "ca dao." No one had ever done this before, and it was Balaban's belief that his project would help end the war. The young American poet walked up to farmers, fishermen, seamstresses, and monks and said, "Sing me your favorite poem," and they did. "Folk poetry is so much a part of everybody's life, my request didn't seem like such a strange proposition," Balaban writes. The resulting collection -- the first in any Western -language -- became a phenomenon within the American Vietnamese community, but the book slipped out of print after the original publisher folded in the '70s. This revised, bilingual edition includes new poems and an eloquent introduction explicating poetry's importance in Vietnamese culture.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781556591860
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
During the Vietnam war, John Balaban traveled the Vietnamese countryside alone, taping, transcribing, and translating oral folk poems known as "ca dao." No one had ever done this before, and it was Balaban's belief that his project would help end the war. The young American poet walked up to farmers, fishermen, seamstresses, and monks and said, "Sing me your favorite poem," and they did. "Folk poetry is so much a part of everybody's life, my request didn't seem like such a strange proposition," Balaban writes. The resulting collection -- the first in any Western -language -- became a phenomenon within the American Vietnamese community, but the book slipped out of print after the original publisher folded in the '70s. This revised, bilingual edition includes new poems and an eloquent introduction explicating poetry's importance in Vietnamese culture.
An Anthology of Vietnamese Poems
Author: Sanh Thông Huỳnh
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Vietnamese poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 458
Book Description
He has organized the poems - which range from ancient to very recent works - around nine main themes that include Vietnamese views of society, responses to foreign influences, and feelings about such universal themes as relationships between men and women, the role of art in life, and conflicts among social classes.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Vietnamese poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 458
Book Description
He has organized the poems - which range from ancient to very recent works - around nine main themes that include Vietnamese views of society, responses to foreign influences, and feelings about such universal themes as relationships between men and women, the role of art in life, and conflicts among social classes.
A Thousand Times You Lose Your Treasure
Author: Hoa Nguyen
Publisher: Wave Books
ISBN: 1950268519
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 137
Book Description
2021 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST FOR POETRY Hoa Nguyen’s latest collection is a poetic meditation on historical, personal, and cultural pressures pre- and post-“Fall-of-Saigon” and comprises a verse biography on her mother, Diep Anh Nguyen, a stunt motorcyclist in an all-woman Vietnamese circus troupe. Multilayered, plaintive, and provocative, the poems in A Thousand Times You Lose Your Treasure are alive with archive and inhabit histories. In turns lyrical and unsettling, her poetry sings of language and loss; dialogues with time, myth and place; and communes with past and future ghosts.
Publisher: Wave Books
ISBN: 1950268519
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 137
Book Description
2021 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST FOR POETRY Hoa Nguyen’s latest collection is a poetic meditation on historical, personal, and cultural pressures pre- and post-“Fall-of-Saigon” and comprises a verse biography on her mother, Diep Anh Nguyen, a stunt motorcyclist in an all-woman Vietnamese circus troupe. Multilayered, plaintive, and provocative, the poems in A Thousand Times You Lose Your Treasure are alive with archive and inhabit histories. In turns lyrical and unsettling, her poetry sings of language and loss; dialogues with time, myth and place; and communes with past and future ghosts.