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The color of peace / Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai.
Van Pelt Library PL4378.9.N53515 C65 2025
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Nguyễn, Phan Quế Mai, 1973- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Vietnamese poetry--21st century.
- Vietnamese poetry.
- Genre:
- Poetry.
- Physical Description:
- vi, 94 pages ; 20 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Boston : Black Ocean, 2025.
- Summary:
- "The debut poetry collection in English by the best-selling author of The Mountains Sing and Dust Child. From award-winning author Nguyen Phan Que Mai comes a powerful collection of poems that bridge divides between nations and generations. The Color of Peace weaves together deeply personal narratives of family, history, war, and humanity, offering a profound meditation on healing and hope across cultures and time." -- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Introduction: poetry, myth and a Utopian vision
- The voice
- Tears of Quảng Trị
- Conversation with the dead
- The jungle men
- Babylift
- The lotus
- The Mekong
- The fish
- Boat land
- Thorns of roses
- Orange is beautiful
- Star fruit flowers
- For a veteran of my country's war
- Quảng Trị
- Separated worlds
- With a Việt Nam veteran
- My father's bàng tree
- My mother's rice
- Speaking with my children
- Grandpa
- My mother's home village
- Uncle Thành
- My cousin's lies
- The brick boy
- On Hà Nội Street
- Việt Nam Veterans Memorial
- A conversation during Tét
- The white time
- Talking with a man who spent ten years in re-education camps
- Mist on the Golden Gate Bridge
- My mother
- Moving
- The string of a đàn bau
- The garden of time
- The lyrics of stars
- Under the Bodhi Tree
- The walk
- Scent of rice fields
- Frangipani petals
- A dream
- The color of peace
- With Henry
- Abuela Moreno
- In waiting
- The bombs and the piano
- Conversations about herbs and trees
- Qinghai's dragon
- Manopeng dance
- Dialogue with Vincent Van Gogh
- At Casa Luna
- Night's wings in Manila
- At the 9/11 Memorial
- Revelation
- Wings
- Epilogue: my father still believed
- Notes.
- ISBN:
- 9781965154113
- 1965154115
- OCLC:
- 1499549313
- Publisher Number:
- 90102190407
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