Black Stars
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Black Stars

Poems

  1. 104 pages
  2. English
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eBook - PDF

Black Stars

Poems

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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. In these masterful translations, the poems sing out with the kind of wisdom that comes to those who have lived through war, traveled far, and seen a great deal. While the past may evoke village life and the present a postmodern urban world, the poems often exhibit a dual consciousness that allows the poet to reside in both at once. From the universe to the self, we see Lap's landscapes grow wider before they focus: black stars receding to dark stairways, infinity giving way to now. Lap's universe is boundless, yes, but also "just big enough / To have four directions / With just enough wind, rain, and trouble to last."

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Publisher
Milkweed Editions
Year
2013
ISBN
9781571319005
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
Asian Poetry
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. CONTENTS
  2. FOREWORD
  3. I. The Universe and I
  4. The Universe and I
  5. Women from the 1960s (I)
  6. Women from the 1960s (II)
  7. The Midlands
  8. Calling the Season
  9. Cherry Garden
  10. Destiny
  11. The Captain
  12. The Utopian
  13. Darkness
  14. The Flanders Road
  15. MCMXCVI
  16. The Other Dream
  17. II. Night Flight
  18. Black Stars
  19. Invisible Chain
  20. The Slumber of Books (I)
  21. The Slumber of Books (II)
  22. That Blue Sky
  23. In the Night
  24. Viet Blood
  25. A Bullet Fired into the Night
  26. A Sandal Dropped in a Swamp
  27. Hanoi
  28. Bonn
  29. The Garret
  30. Hai Phong
  31. Little Lap-Tree
  32. Someday
  33. From Behind a Covered Window
  34. Empty Well
  35. Six Billion Minus One Equals Six Billion
  36. III. Road on the Earth
  37. Nightmare
  38. Praise for the Dead
  39. Evening
  40. By the Loiret River
  41. My Stories
  42. Not Speaking
  43. The Man with Big Eyes
  44. Your Hand, the Unending Season
  45. A Tree Has Fallen
  46. Change
  47. Road on the Earth
  48. NOTES
  49. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS