This seventh volume in Vagabond’s Asia Pacific Poetry Series brings together a selection of poetry from three contemporary Vietnamese poets living in Australia: Lê Văn Tài, Nguyễn Tôn Hiệt & Phan Quỳnh Trâm. Introduced by Nguyễn Hưng Quốc and with an ‘After words’ by Nhã Thuyên, this collection opens a window on contemporary writing from the Vietnamese diaspora and insights into the evolution and realities of transnational literature. Cover art by Nguyễn Hưng Trinh. [From the publisher's website]
With title: A Man Lonely, Dumb and Free (1)
With first line: After the long journey,
'Released under Vagabond Press's Asia Pacific Poetry Series, Poems of Lê Văn Tài, Nguyễn Tôn Hiệt & Phan Quỳnh Trâm is a much-needed update on the work of these three Vietnamese voices in Australian poetry, bookended by overviews from the co-editors, Nguyễn Hưng Quốc and poet/writer Nhã Thuyên. Thuyên's words breathe, creatures of elsewhere was also released by Vagabond, in 2016. Quốc is the author of, among much else, Vietnamese Literature in Australia: Politics and Poetics of Diaspora (in Vietnamese, 2013), and without question politics, poetry and diaspora are the themes which together resonate throughout the poems in this collection.' (Introduction)
'Released under Vagabond Press's Asia Pacific Poetry Series, Poems of Lê Văn Tài, Nguyễn Tôn Hiệt & Phan Quỳnh Trâm is a much-needed update on the work of these three Vietnamese voices in Australian poetry, bookended by overviews from the co-editors, Nguyễn Hưng Quốc and poet/writer Nhã Thuyên. Thuyên's words breathe, creatures of elsewhere was also released by Vagabond, in 2016. Quốc is the author of, among much else, Vietnamese Literature in Australia: Politics and Poetics of Diaspora (in Vietnamese, 2013), and without question politics, poetry and diaspora are the themes which together resonate throughout the poems in this collection.' (Introduction)
