I Had a Dream single work   poetry   "Last night I had a dream. It’s not that I did not dream the other nights but I particularly wanted to talk about the dream that I dreamt last night. I had to say “I had a dream” because if I=Tôi đã có một giấc mơ đêm qua. Không phải tôi không từng nằm mơ những đêm khác nhưng tôi đặc biệt muốn nói về giấc mơ tôi mơ thấy đêm qua. Tôi phải nói “tôi đã có một giấc mơ”"
Alternative title: Tôi đã có một giấc mơ
Issue Details: First known date: 2002... 2002 I Had a Dream
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Notes

  • Epigraph: “Daylight leaks in, and sluggishly I surface

    from my own dreams into the common dream”

    Jorge Luis Borges

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

Language: English , Vietnamese
First line of verse: "Last night I had a dream. It’s not that I did not dream the"
Language: English
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    y separately published work icon Poems of Lê Văn Tài, Nguyễn Tôn Hiệt & Phan Quỳnh Trâm Lê Văn Tài , Nguyễn Tôn Hiệt , Phan Quỳnh Trâm , Nguyễn Hưng Quốc (editor), Thuyền Nhân (editor), Newtown : Vagabond Press , 2015 8902290 2015 selected work poetry

    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]

         Newtown : Vagabond Press , 2015     pg. 89
    Note: Appears without epigraph
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