Research Catalog

Title

Green Rice : poems / by Lâm Thị Mỹ Dạ ; translated by Martha Collins and Thúy Đinh.

Author

Lâm, Thị Mỹ Dạ, 1949-

Publication

Willimantic, CT : Curbstone Press, 2005.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Collins, Martha, 1940-
• Thúy, Đinh.
• William Joiner Center for the Study of War and Social Consequences.

Description

xviii, 148 pages; 22 cm

Subject

• Vietnamese poetry > Translations into English

Note

• "Published in cooperation with the William Joiner Center for the Study of War and Social Consequences."

Contents

Introduction / Martha Collins -- Garden fragrance -- Night harvest -- Journey into white night -- Bomb crater sky -- The face beneath -- A mother story -- Winnowing rice -- Scent of areca -- Custard apple tree -- Birdsong in the rice field -- Half-moon -- As leaves -- Gathering my years -- The sound of the bronze drum -- By a statue of my chau -- Are you good enough? -- Cat in the window -- Speaking to the heart -- Connections -- Dawn -- Luc Bat streets -- A deep green time -- Cricket song -- Echoes -- Night-blooming cereus -- Untitled -- Meteorite -- With the perfume river -- White water lily -- The nest -- Girl -- The fertile heart -- Tableau -- Childhood story -- Green rice -- Dedicated to a dream -- Untitled -- Rain -- A pine cone in Pasternak's garden -- Row of camphor trees -- Saigon rain -- Illusive lover -- By waves -- Small as a doll -- The wild rosebud has changed -- My plum tree -- Looking back -- Yesterday's mother -- Skipping stones -- There is no sea -- The night-blooming cereus and I -- Woman wearing black -- Friends -- The color of Phai Street -- January -- Poem for the Year of the Buffalo.

ISBN

1931896135 (acid-free paper)

LCCN

2004045502

OCLC

• ocm54544022
• SCSB-5172980

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries