Th417 Tr7847n D7841 T7915 - Paperback - English - 9780464694465, Mandai

Author: blank ISBN: 9780464694465 Booktype: Paperback Language: English The first volume including collected poems from his sixty years of work. About the author: Trần Dạ Từ was born in Hải Dương, northern Vietnam. In 1954, during the partition of the country, he went to Saigon, where he became a journalist and prominent poet. During 1963, he was jailed by the Ngô Đình Diệm government for his dissident views, then imprisoned for 12 years by the Communists from 1976-1988, after the collapse of South Vietnam. His wife, the famous novelist and poet Nhã Ca, the only South Vietnamese female writer among 10 black-listed as "cultural guerrillas" by the Communist regime, was also imprisoned from 1976-1977. In 1989, a year after Trần Dạ Từ was released from prison, the couple and their children received political asylum from the Swedish government, but later moved to the US and now live in Southern California. His poetry-most notably the 4,000-line "The Stone that Generates Fire" ("Hòn Đá Là