Book record
The secret of Hoa Sen
Phan Quế Mai Nguyễn
Translated from Vietnamese by Bruce Weigl, Nguyen Phan Que Mai
Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai’s The secret of Hoa Sen, translated with Bruce Weigl and associated here with the poet herself in the translator field, gives English-language readers a Vietnamese collection shaped by lotus, secrecy, resilience, and cultural memory. The lotus is a powerful image because it belongs equally to beauty and mud. That duality feels like a useful way into the book. The poems can be read as acts of preservation, but not in a static way. They carry voice, family, land, and survival into a present tense. Published by BOA Editions, the collection belongs on the shelf as a Vietnamese work of tenderness and witness, where beauty is not escape from suffering but one of the ways to endure it.
- Published
- 2014
- Publisher
- BOA Editions, Ltd.
- Language
- Vietnamese
- Country
- Vietnam
- ISBN
- 9781938160523