This unique collection offers over one hundred poems from over one hundred poets in the only bilingual anthology of Vietnamese women's poetry available anywhere in the world.

The poems in The Defiant Muse: Vietnamese Feminist Poems from Antiquity to the Present range from some of the earliest oral poetry, the first Buddhist spiritual poems written by women, and bold works by today's youth. Whether it is the historical expulsion of the Chinese or the cultivation of silk worms, this volume speaks to the exceptional moments and everyday realities of women's lives, of love and war, work in the fields and cities, life in their homeland and abroad.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Feminist Press
Published: 08/01/2007
ISBN: 9781558615496
Pages: 287
Weight: 0.99lbs
Size: 8.92h x 6.10w x 0.88d

Review Citations: Reference and Research Bk News 02/01/2008 pg. 239