Distant Road

Download or read book Distant Road written by Duy Nguyẽ̂n and published by Curbstone Press Contemporary P. This book was released on 1999 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Widely considered the most important poet of his generation, Duy began his career as a writer on the battlefields of Vietnam. The power of his highly-crafted poetry stems from its distinct sense of time and place, his unrelenting honesty, and his deep compassion. Born into a peasant family, Duy captures the essence of village life in his poetry. Whether it is love, family, war, present or lost friends, or his own self-mockery, his poetry is infused with an understanding of hardship and suffering. Many of his love poems have become classics in Vietnam.