Mountain River: Vietnamese Poetry from the Wars, 1948-1993 : a Bilingual Collection

Kevin Bowen, Ba Chung Nguyen, Chung Ba Nguyen, Bruce Weigl

University of Massachusetts Press, 1998 - Fiction - 266 pages

An anthology that attests to the power of art to transform the trauma of war. This powerful and moving bilingual collection affirms the importance of poetry in the formation and perpetuation of Vietnamese national identity. A valuable survey of Vietnamese poetry written since World War II.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Mountain River: Vietnamese Poetry from the Wars, 1948-1993 : a Bilingual Collection
• Editors: Kevin Bowen, Ba Chung Nguyen, Chung Ba Nguyen, Bruce Weigl
• Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press, 1998
• ISBN: 1558491414, 9781558491410
• Length: 266 pages
• Subjects: Fiction / Short Stories (single author); History / Military / General; Literary Criticism / Asian / General; Literary Criticism / General; Literary Criticism / Poetry; Poetry / Anthologies (multiple authors); Poetry / Asian / General; Poetry / General; Poetry / Subjects & Themes / War