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Nguyễn Hưng Quốc | 909 TERCET – BÀI THƠ BA DÒNG (178)

Nguyễn Hưng Quốc, the acclaimed linguist, critic and poet born Nguyễn Ngọc Tuấn, 1957, Quang Nam Province, Vietnam. The professor currently lives and work in Melbourne, Australia.
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Nguyễn Thị Phương Trâm, the blogger, 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 Nguyễn Hưng Quốc, translation by Nguyễn Thị Phương Trâm

 

They’re piled on top of each other

The fibre of the night was shredded

By their moaning

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Họ chồng lên người nhau

Màn đêm bị những tiếng rên

Xé rách 

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November 2021

By Nguyễn Thị Phương Trâm

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

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