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Bookclub – ‘Spring Essence: The Poetry of Hô Xuân Huong’ and ‘Love Poems’ by Xuan Dieu

Name: Bookclub – ‘Spring Essence: The Poetry of Hô Xuân Huong’ and ‘Love Poems’ by Xuan Dieu
Start: 2022-04-04T19:00:00+07:00
End: 2022-04-04T20:30:00+07:00

April 4, 2022 @ 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM

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

Love Poems by Xuân Diệu, a collection of translated poems on the theme of love composed by one of the most prolific and well-known poets of Vietnam. Throughout his career, Xuân Diệu, one of the most outstanding representative of Thơ Mới Literary movement, had been variously known as a “romantic poet”, or “the greatest poet among the new poets”, or “the king of love poems”.

Venue @ Jouri Dessert and tea, 10 Khúc Hạo, Điện Bàn, Ba Đình

For more info and RSVP – contact Maria maria.benimeo@gmail.com

P.S. It is not easy to find this two books, but we can read the most popular works on the net, together with an introduction to the authors’ ideas and style.

Here you can find some useful links.

Hồ Xuân Hương

https://archive.org/details/springessencepoe0000hoxu

https://www.poemhunter.com/i/ebooks/pdf/ho_xuan_huong_2012_5.pdf

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet-books/2008/05/ho-xuan-huong

https://saigoneer.com/saigon-heritage/7725-street-cred-ho-xuan-huong,-a-woman-ahead-of-her-time

https://allpoetry.com/Ho-Xuan-Huong

http://www.nomfoundation.org/nom-project/Ho-Xuan-Huong?uiLang=en

https://chaohanoi.com/2020/08/23/ho-xuan-huong-famed-vietnamese-poet/

Xuân Diệu

https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/hurry-up-translation-poem-of-xu-n-di-u-v-i-va-ng/

https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/i-return-to-m-th-ng-translated-poem-of-xu-n-di-u-anh-v-m-th-ng/