Ngo Tu Lap

Black Stars

Übersetzer: Collins, Martha

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"War is over. Peace arrives with these beautiful poems.” -MAXINE HONG KINGSTON Co-translated by Vietnamese poet Ngo Tu Lap and American poet Martha Collins, this moving collection introduces a man who is both attached to his war-haunted childhood home and deeply conversant with contemporary global life. Simultaneously occupying past, present, and future, Black Stars escapes the confines of time and space, suffusing image with memory, abstraction with meaning, and darkness with abundant light. "Underlying tensions animate these arresting poems by Ngo Tu Lap, movingly translated by Martha Collins. Co-inhabiting past and present, the speaker conflates absence and presence so that 'On the finger of a woman who died young / A ring still sparkles / In the depths of the black earth.' Inside this dual perspective, we, as readers, are enriched.” -ARTHUR SZE "Reading Ngo Tu Lap's poems, terrible nostalgia wells up in me-nostalgia for a lost time and a far-gone country, nostalgia for people I've loved, and for creatures of forests and rivers. The French called PTSD nostalgie. I feel gratitude too.” -MAXINE HONG KINGSTON "A light flickers in and among the shadows and darkness we find in Ngo Tu Lap's poetry. This light is ineffable, and yet utterly present. As Lap writes, it is like 'the whispered call of a star at the edge of the sky.' In these vivid and moving translations, Ngo Tu Lap's poems come to us with the light of his own whispered calls from afar.” -FRED MARCHANT NGO TU LAP has published three collections of poems in Vietnam, as well as five works of fiction, five collections of essays, and many translations from Russian, French, and English. He is currently Dean of the Department of Social Sciences, Humanities, and Economics at the International School (Vietnam National University) in Hanoi. MARTHA COLLINS is the author of six collections of poems, most recently Blue Front and White Papers, as well as two collections of poems co-translated from the Vietnamese. Currently editor-at-large for FIELD magazine and an editor for Oberlin College Press, Collins lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Cover design by Charles Rue Woods Cover photo © Yves Schiepek

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Milkweed Editions
• Bilingual
• Seitenzahl: 104
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. November 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 143mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 169g
• ISBN-13: 9781571314598
• ISBN-10: 1571314598
• Artikelnr.: 38428553

Autorenporträt

Ngo Tu Lap has published three collections of poetry in Vietnam, as well as five books of fiction, five books of essays, and many translations from Russian, French and English. He has won seven prizes for his writing, which has been translated into English, French, German, Swedish, Czech, and Thai. A fellow of the Korea Foundation for Advanced Studies at Korea University in Seoul in 2010-2011, he is currently Dean of the Department of Social Sciences, Humanities and Economics at the International School (Vietnam National University, Hanoi). Martha Collins is the author of six collections of poetry, most recently Blue Front and White Papers. She has also published two books of co-translations from the Vietnamese. Collins founded the Creative Writing Program at UMass-Boston, and for ten years was Pauline Delaney Professor of Creative Writing at Oberlin College. Editor-at-large for FIELD and an editor for Oberlin College Press, Collins currently lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Her seventh poetry collection, Day Unto Day, is forthcoming from Milkweed Editions in 2014.