Ca Dao Vietnam: Vietnamese Folk Poetry by John Balaban

Ca Dao Vietnam: Vietnamese Folk Poetry

John Balaban

76 pages first pub 1980 (editions)

nonfiction poetry emotional reflective slow-paced
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During the Vietnam war, John Balaban traveled the Vietnamese countryside alone, taping, transcribing, and translating oral folk poems known as "ca dao." No one had ever done this before, and it was Balaban’s belief that his project would help end ...

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