Spring Essence

The Poetry of Ho Xuan Huong

Author: Ho Xuan Huong
ISBN: 9781556591488

Hô Xuân Huong—whose name translates as "Spring Essence"—is one of the most important and popular poets in Vietnam. A concubine, she became renowned for her poetic skills, writing subtly risqué poems which used double entendre and sexual innuendo as a vehicle for social, religious, and political commentary. "The Unwed Mother" Because I was too easy, this happened. Can you guess the hollow in my heart? Fate did not push out a bud even though the willow grew. He will carry this a hundred years but I must bear the burden now. Never mind the gossip of the world. Don’t have it, yet have it ! So simple. The publication of Spring Essence is a major historical and cultural event. It features a "tri-graphic" presentation of English translations alongside both the modern Vietnamese alphabet and the nearly extinct calligraphic Nôm writing system, the hand-drawn calligraphy in which Hô Xuân Huong originally wrote her poems. It represents the first time that this calligraphy—the carri

Publisher: Copper Canyon Press
Publish Date: 2000

Subjects: History / Asia / General, Poetry / Asian / General

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