Mountain River : Vietnamese Poetry from the Wars, 1948-1993 Book

	Acknowledgments
	Introduction: The Field of Vision in Vietnamese Poetry
	A Note on the Text and Translations
	Full Moon in January	3
	Western Advance	5
	The Sim Flower Lavender	9
	Beautiful and Loving Days Gone By	13
	Remembering	15
	Missing the Eastern Region	17
	Uncle Doesn't Sleep Tonight	19
	Afternoon Rain on Route	23
	Pham Hong Thai	27
	The Couple of the Mountains	29
	Bright Starry Night	35
	Native Village	37
	Return to Tuyen	41
	When Will You Return?	43
	Condolence to a Friend	47
	Bombing at Seng Phen	49
	The Red Farewell	51
	I Returned to My Native Village	55
	The Lamp Standing Guard	59
	Emily, My Daughter	61
	The Division	67
	Drum and Fire	71
	Wave	73
	A Garden in the City	77
	Three Bullets	81
	Song of the Hammock	83
	The Fire in the Lamps	87
	Under Moonlight the Baby Sings	95
	The Rifleman's Words	97
	Deo Ngang: Crossing Pass	103
	Footprints in Elephant Grass	105
	The Grave and the Sandalwood Tree	107
	A Sky in a Bomb Crater	111
	O Life I Love Like My Wife	113
	Secret Scent	117
	The Alabaster Stork	119
	Mountain, River	121
	Lullaby for the Minority Children Growing Up on Their Mothers' Backs	123
	Song of the Moonlight and the Dan Bo	127
	Hearing the Argument of the Small Prisoners	131
	Stop	133
	White Circle	137
	Quang Tri	139
	Red Earth - Blue Water	141
	The Father	143
	Waiting	145
	On Hearing a Chameleon in the City	149
	The Incense Smell on New Year's Eve	153
	Worried Over the Days Past	155
	Moonlight	157
	In Phan Thiet	159
	Where the River Flowed	163
	The Repose	165
	The Space between Words	169
	Sonnet for the Bus	171
	A Retired General	173
	Leaving off Poetry	175
	Poem for My Grandson	177
	Woman Knitting	179
	The Bells	181
	After Many Missed Dates, You Finally Come	183
	Speaking to the Heart	185
	Come before the Rain Falls	187
	A Small Song of Peace	189
	Not Just a Battlefront	195
	Folk Festival in the Autumn Night	197
	Suddenly	199
	In the Metro	201
	Oh Stone	203
	Lang Son, 1989	205
	The Co May Flower	207
	Wind and Widow	209
	New Year's Eve	211
	Poem of a Garden	213
	A Half	217
	In the Labor Market at Giang Vo	219
	At 59 Ba Trieu Street	221
	To Return to the Urges Unconscious of Their Beginning	223
	The Examples	225
	Selected Bibliography	227
	Notes on the Poets	231
	Index of Authors and Poems	263