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Nguyễn Hưng Quốc | 909 TERCET – BÀI THƠ BA DÒNG (602)

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

Post author By Nguyễn Thị Phương Trâm
Post date May 12, 2022
4 Comments on Nguyễn Hưng Quốc | 909 TERCET – BÀI THƠ BA DÒNG (602)

By Nguyễn Hưng Quốc, translation by Nguyễn Thị Phương Trâm

Humanity can not escape the vernacular

Since even silence

Is a comma

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Con người không thể thoát khỏi ngôn ngữ

Ngay cả sự im lặng

Cũng là một dấu phẩy

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November 2021

Tags bilingual, dich, english, literature, nguyenhungquoc, nguyenthiphuongtram, poem, Poetry, songngu, tercet, tho, translation, vietnamese

By Nguyễn Thị Phương Trâm

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

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4 replies on “Nguyễn Hưng Quốc | 909 TERCET – BÀI THƠ BA DÒNG (602)”

You are very busy and prolific
You clog my in box
But that is OK
I love Whatyou are tryin to accomplish!
You want to share culture.
I respect and admire that!

I have been to war too

Cheers,
–Lancers

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