SPRING ESSENCE: The Poetry of Ho Xuan Huong.
Edition: Trade paperback.
Port Townsend, WA Copper Canyon Press. (2000). A collection of poetry from the eighteenth-century poet Ho Xuan Huong which uses double entendre and sexual innuendo for social, religious, and political commentary. The first book in history to have Nom - the nearly extinct 1000 year old ideographic script in which Ho Xuan Huong wrote her poetry - printed as type, A trilingual edition with the poems also in modern Vietnamese and English. Introduction by Balaban. 134 pp. ISBN: 1556591469.
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 60765
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