The North American debut of Tuamp7879 Samp7929poet monk scholar dissident and one of the great cultural figures of modern Vietnamamp8212and a new bilingual edition to the Seedbank seriesIn addition to being a preeminent scholar of world philosophy and a Zen master Tuamp7879 Samp7929 is one of Vietnams most celebrated poets He is a survivor of sixteen years of imprisonment and an eloquent witness to the tumult tragedy and resilience of his country over the last sixty yearsamp8212and a fulllength translation of his work into English is long overdueAssembled and cotranslated by Vietnamese poet and essayist Nguyen Ba Chung and acclaimed American poet Martha Collins Dreaming the Mountain reflects a lifetime of creation crisis and commitment With poems presented on facing pages in Vietnamese and English this volume includes the early imagism of Tuamp7879 Samp7929amp8217s Zen studies as a scholar and critic midlife work that represents his attempted retreat from the devastation of war and subsequent years of imprisonment and late elliptical poems that give intensely lyrical expression to a lifetime of profound experience From the quotfleeting dream of red blood at duskquot to the...
