Book record
Black Stars
Ngo Tu Lap
Translated from Vietnamese by Martha Collins
Ngo Tu Lap’s Black Stars, translated from Vietnamese by Martha Collins, brings together two images that should not quite coexist: blackness and starlight. That contradiction gives the book its opening atmosphere. These poems likely move through darkness, memory, and illumination without letting any of those terms become easy. Collins’s role as translator is important because Vietnamese poetry asks English to listen across different rhythms of history, image, and feeling. Published by Milkweed Editions, the book belongs in this library as a work of shadowed radiance. It is the kind of collection I would describe as quietly intense, not because it whispers, but because its light seems to arrive from very far away.
- Published
- 2013
- Publisher
- Milkweed Editions
- Language
- Vietnamese
- Country
- Vietnam
- ISBN
- 9781571314598