Black Dog, Black Night: Contemporary Vietnamese Poetry [Paperback]

Paul Hoover (Editor), Nguyen Do (Editor)

Book Description

Publication Date: February 15, 2008

The poems in Black Dog, Black Night highlight an aspect of Vietnamese verse previously unfamiliar to American readers: its remarkable contemporary voices. Celebrating Vietnam’s diverse and thriving literary culture, the poems collected here combine elements of French Romanticism, Russian Expressionism, American Modernism, and native folk stories into a Vietnamese poetic tradition marked by vivid imagery, powerful emotions, and inventive forms. Included here are 17 postmodern and experimental Vietnamese poets, including the founding editor of Skanky Possum magazine, as well as American poets of Vietnamese descent.

Product Details

• Paperback: 288 pages
• Publisher: Milkweed Editions (February 15, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 157131430X
• ISBN-13: 978-1571314307
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 6 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,525,409 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Paul Hoover was born in Harrisonburg, Virginia, in 1946, and currently lives in San Francisco, where he teaches at San Francisco State University and edits the well-known literary magazine New American Writing. His recent poetry volumes include The Novel: A Poem (New Directions, 1991), Viridian (Univerity of Georgia Press, 1997), Totem and Shadow: New and Selected Poems (Talisman House, 1999), Rehearsal in Black (Salt Publications, 2001), Winter Mirror (Flood Editions, 2002), Poems in Spanish (Omnidawn Publishing, 2005), Edge and Fold (Apogee Press, 2006), and Sonnet 56 (Les Figues Press, 2009), which consists of 56 formal variations on Shakespeare's sonnet 56. Editor of a leading anthology, Postmodern American Poetry: A Norton Anthology, 1994, he is also the author of a book of literary essays, Fables of Representation (University of Michigan Press, 2004). With Maxine Chernoff, he edited and translated Selected Poems of Friedrich Hölderlin (Omnidawn, 2008), which won the 2009 PEN USA Translation Award. With Nguyen Do, he edited and translated Beyond the Court Gate: Selected Poems of Nguyen Trai. He currently resides in Mill Valley, California.