$un\ \martyred: [self-]vanishing presences in Vietnamese poetry$

un\ \martyred: [self-]vanishing presences in Vietnamese poetry

By Nh n, Translated by Nguy?n-Hoàng Quyên, Translated by David Payne, Translated by Ngân Nguy?n, Translated by Kaitlin Rees, Afterword by Tr?n Ng?c Hi?u

POETRY

172 Pages, 6 x 9

Formats: Trade Paper

Trade Paper, $20.00 (CA $27.00) (US $20.00)

Publication Date: March 2019

ISBN 9781931824811

Rights: WOR

Roof Books (Mar 2019)

Price:	$20.00

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Author Biography

Overview

un\ \martyred: [self-]vanishing presences in Vietnamese poetry by Nhã Thuyên, a Hanoi-based poet and critic, is a collection of essays that offers a cartography of the writing communities that have lived (and died) along the margins of Vietnam’s literary landscape since the Renovation period of the late 1980’s. The collection deftly and delicately navigates the poetry and poetic work of marginalized writers in Vietnam, and their relationship to politics, dissidence, and creative production. un\ \martyred examines expansive modes of aesthetic defiance in essays that themselves glimmer with poetic lyricism and precision. The reader voyages through chronicles of political landscapes and the actors toiling within them. Her explorations of writing tendencies such as Open Mouth, Womxn’s Poetry, Sidewalk Poetry, and more “nourish an emancipated grammar of poetry.”

Author Biography

Nhã Thuyên’s most recent poetry thing words breathe, creatures of elsewhere (t? th?, nh?ng ngu?i l?) was published in Vietnamese (Nhã Nam, 2015) and in English translation by Kaitlin Rees (Vagabond Press, 2016). With Kaitlin Rees, she founded AJAR, a small bilingual literary journal-press, an online, printed space for poetic exchange. She soliloquizes some nonsense when having no other emergencies of life to deal with.

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