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Lê Vĩnh Tài | no. 6:5 – there’s no alliance stronger than death and the devil

Lê Vĩnh Tài, the Vietnamese poet and translator born 1966 in Buon Ma Thuot, Daklak, Vietnam. The retired doctor is still a resident of the Western Highlands, a businessman in Buon Ma Thuot.

Nguyễn Thị Phương Trâm, the poet and translator, born 1971 in Phu Nhuan, Saigon, Vietnam. The pharmacist currently lives and works in Western Sydney, Australia.

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By Lê Vĩnh Tài, translation by Nguyễn Thị Phương Trâm

Poetry writes a poem about death

poetry knows

there’s no alliance stronger than

death and the devil

in their knitted web of evil.

_____

Thơ viết bài thơ về cái chết 

thơ biết

không có liên minh nào mạnh hơn

cái chết và ma quỷ

bởi chúng ràng buộc nhau bằng tội ác.

By Nguyễn Thị Phương Trâm

There's magic in translating a body of work from one language to another.

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