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This unique collection offers over one hundred poems from over one hundred poets in the only bilingual anthology of Vietnamese women’s poetry available anywhere in the world.

The poems in The Defiant Muse: Vietnamese Feminist Poems from Antiquity to the Present range from some of the earliest oral poetry, the first Buddhist spiritual poems written by women, and bold works by today''s youth. Whether it is the historical expulsion of the Chinese or the cultivation of silk worms, this volume speaks to the exceptional moments and everyday realities of women''s lives, of love and war, work in the fields and cities, life in their homeland and abroad.

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    A Paperback / softback by Nguyen Thi Minh Hà, Nguyen Thi Thanh Binh, Lady Borton

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      Publisher: Feminist Press at The City University of New York
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 13/09/2007
      ISBN13: 9781558615496, 978-1558615496
      ISBN10: 1558615490

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      This unique collection offers over one hundred poems from over one hundred poets in the only bilingual anthology of Vietnamese women’s poetry available anywhere in the world.

      The poems in The Defiant Muse: Vietnamese Feminist Poems from Antiquity to the Present range from some of the earliest oral poetry, the first Buddhist spiritual poems written by women, and bold works by today''s youth. Whether it is the historical expulsion of the Chinese or the cultivation of silk worms, this volume speaks to the exceptional moments and everyday realities of women''s lives, of love and war, work in the fields and cities, life in their homeland and abroad.

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