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Poems and translations by Nguyễn Thùy Dương, Nguyễn Lâm Thảo Thi, and Mai Duy Quang

By Nguyễn Thùy Dương, Nguyễn Lâm Thảo Thi, Mai Duy Quang

Photograph by Bông Nguyễn

Nguyễn Thùy Dương, “miếng giếng|morsel - well”. vật thể làm bằng tay | handmade object, 2021

Poetry | Light, Vietnamese, comma, nonsense, word
April 28, 2021

Editor’s note: Today’s poem by Nguyễn Thùy Dương, translated by Nguyễn Lâm Thảo Thi, and poem with self-translation by Mai Duy Quang are part of a notebook of experimental and experiential Vietnamese writing, the collection of which is gathered here. The pieces of this notebook, having transformed across time and space as well as various material forms, are presented here in their digital bodies as reproductions of the print edition tôi viết (tiếng Việt) | i write (in Vietnamese) (AJAR, 2021) and its art exhibition in Hanoi. We encourage readers to click on any images of text for enlargement. Print copies of tôi viết (tiếng Việt) | i write (in Vietnamese) are available for purchase here.

Miếng giếng

by Nguyễn Thùy Dương

Morsel-well

translated by Nguyễn Lâm Thảo Thi

Journals to

written and translated by Mai Duy Quang

Nguyễn Thùy Dương from human-decor to human-practice | từ người-cảnh đến người-tập

Nguyễn Lâm Thảo Thi is loitering in the archives | đang la cà ở các kho lưu tr/chữ

Mai Duy Quang is from Hanoi, Vietnam. His poems have been published or are forthcoming from The American Poetry Review, The Lifted Brow, Overland and others. He is the author of the chapbooks ‘Homeward’ and ‘Journals to’ (Story Factory, 2018-19).

từ Hà Nội, Việt Nam. Thơ cậu ấy đã và sắp được xuất bản trên các tạp chí The American Poetry Review, The Lifted Brow, Overland và ở một số tạp chí khác. Cậu là tác giả của các tập mỏng ‘Homeward’ and ‘Journals to’ (Story Factory, 2018-19).

Tags: Light, Vietnamese, comma, nonsense, word

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