SPRING ESSENCE: The Poetry of Ho Xuan Huong. by Ho…

SPRING ESSENCE: The Poetry of Ho Xuan Huong. by Ho Xuan Huong.Translated by John Balaban. < >

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: Near fine in illustrated wrappers.

Book ID: 62433
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