Book record
A Thousand Years of Vietnamese Poetry
Anthology
Translated from Vietnamese by Nguyẽ̂n Ngọc Bích
A Thousand Years of Vietnamese Poetry is an anthology of Vietnamese poetry from Vietnam, translated by Nguyễn Ngọc Bích, published by Random House. It is an anthology with a long historical reach, valuable because it asks the reader to hear Vietnamese poetry as continuity, rupture, dynasty, war, and song. The point of a book like this is not to make a tradition tidy. It is to let plurality remain audible: different periods, temperaments, formal habits, and historical pressures sharing the same table. I would read it less as a monument than as a listening practice, a way of noticing how a literature keeps changing its mouth across time. For the library, it belongs because anthologies widen the shelf beyond a single signature and make room for chorus.
- Publisher
- Random House
- Language
- Vietnamese
- Country
- Vietnam