Black Dog, Black Night by Anthology and translated by Nguyen Do, Paul Hoover

This is poetry from Vietnam.

Black Dog, Black Night by Anthology translated by Nguyen Do, Paul Hoover is published by Milkweed Editions. This is a Book originally written in Vietnamese. This was published in 2008.0 and has the ISBN of 9.781571314307E12.

Black Dog, Black Night is an anthology of Vietnamese poetry, translated by Nguyen Do, Paul Hoover, published by Milkweed Editions in 2008. It is an anthology of contemporary Vietnamese poetry that brings multiple voices into English through collaboration and selection. As an anthology, it is valuable because it refuses to let Vietnam appear only through war memory; the poems make room for dream, darkness, wit, body, and city. I would not approach it as a book that needs to be solved before it can be felt. Start with the pressure of the title, the texture of the translated line, and the feeling of a voice making room for itself in English. For this library, the book matters as more than a record of Vietnam; it is an invitation to let poetry remain particular, difficult, and alive without asking it to behave like explanation.

If you’d like to see international poetry continue and gain traction, consider requesting this work from your local library, or purchasing it from places like Open Books (a poetry only bookstore), Asterism Books (an independent press distributor), or bookshop.org to connect you with your local bookstores.

Check out more of the always in-progress translated poetry index here.