Poetry. Edited by Paul Hoover and Maxine Chernoff. An eclectic collection including translations Che Quianzi, Yu Jian, Jia Wei, Ko Un, Nguyen Quoc Chanh by Wang Ping, Gary Gach, Ron Padgett, Lewis Warsh, Mong-Lan and James Brook (translator of eight political poems by Benjam Peret from the French); fiction by Peter Orner; poems from some 40 other poets, including Gustaf Sobin, Eleni Sikelianos, Laura Mullen, Eileen Mysles, James Tate, Maxine Chernoff, Nathaniel Tran, and Richard Silberg; and, a seminal essay on "The Modernization of Vietnamese Poetry" by Hoang Hung, critical reading for anyone interested in the intersection of politics and poetry in contemporary Vietnam. 186pp.