A poem in Vietnamese by Tô Thùy Yên
Translator: Nguyễn Thị Phương Trâm
- December blues
- Freedom
- Journey to the Spratly Islands – Trường Sa Hành
- Monument
- My Homecoming
- The Constitution of a Poet
- The coronation of love
- The dying light on Tam Giang Lagoon – Chiều trên phá Tam Giang
- The empty cafe
- The night train
- The one who stayed
- The Soul of a Poet
- The poor things
- The Beggar
- The scum of life
- You(em), heading for…
- You’re so small(em), how could you be the Northern Seabird
- Widow
- Worn and beaten by time & the elements
Tô Thuỳ Yên (1938-2019) real name was Đinh Thành Tiên, born in Go Vap, Gia Dinh, Vietnam, an alumnus at Petrus Ký and Đại học Văn khoa Sài Gòn. He was a teacher and journalist in Saigon, a Major in the Vietnam Army prior to 1975. After 1975 served 13 years in re-education camps, in 1993, he moved with his family to the United States as a former political prisoner.
Nguyễn Thị Phương Trâm, the blogger, poet, and translator, was born in 1971 in Phu Nhuan, Saigon, Vietnam. The pharmacist currently lives and works in Western Sydney, Australia.
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