Spring Essence The Poetry of Ho Xuan Huong

Name: Spring Essence The Poetry of Ho Xuan Huong
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ISBN: 9781556591488

ISBN-10: 1556591489

ISBN-13: 9781556591488

Edition: 2000

Authors: Ho Xuan Huong, John Balaban

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Ho Xuan Huong-whose name translates as "Spring Essence"-is one of the most important and popular poets in Vietnam. A concubine, she became renowned for her poetic skills, writing subtly risque poems which used double entendre and sexual innuendo as a vehicle for social, religious, and political commentary. "The Unwed Mother" Because I was too easy, this happened. Can you guess the hollow in my heart? Fate did not push out a bud even though the willow grew. He will carry this a hundred years but I must bear the burden now. Never mind the gossip of the world. Don't have it, yet have it ! So simple. The publication of Spring Essence is a major historical and cultural event. It features a…

Book details

List price: $15.00
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: Copper Canyon Press
Publication date: 10/1/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 140
Size: 6.00" wide x 8.75" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.550
Language: English



Acknowledgments


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Introduction


Autumn Landscape


Confession (I)


Offering Betel


Confession (II)


Lament for the Prefect of Vinh-Tuong


Lament for Commissioner Coc


Confession (III)


The Floating Cake


On Sharing a Husband


Jackfruit


River Snail


Tavern by a Mountain Stream


Teasing Chieu-Ho


Chieu-Ho's Reply


Three-Mountain Pass


Weaving at Night


On a Portrait of Two Beauties


The Unwed Mother


Swinging


Male Member


Girl without a Sex


The Paper Fan


Picking Flowers


The Wellspring


Cats


Consoling a Young Widow


The Pharmacist's Widow Mourns His Death


The Condition of Women


Village Schoolmaster


The Retired Doctor


Young Scholars


Quan Su Pagoda


Buddhist Nun


The Lustful Monk


Old Pagoda


Viewing Cac-Co Cavern


Mocking a Monk


Tran Quoc Temple


At the Chinese General's Tomb


Rusty Coins


The Scarecrow


The Crab


Unwelcome Houseguest


The Kingdom of Dang


The Chess Game


Heaven Market


Questions for the Moon


Country Scene


Spring-Watching Pavilion


Endnotes


Sources for Nom poems


References


Sources for quoc-ngu versions


About the translator


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