{"product_id":"dreaming-the-mountain","title":"Dreaming The Mountain","description":"\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe North American debut of Tu? S?—poet, monk, scholar, dissident, and one of the great cultural figures of modern Vietnam—and a new bilingual edition to the Seedbank series.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn addition to being a preeminent scholar of world philosophy and a Zen master, Tu?\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003eS? is one of Vietnam’s most celebrated poets. He is a survivor of sixteen years of imprisonment and an eloquent witness to the tumult, tragedy, and resilience of his country over the last sixty years—and a full-length translation of his work into English is long overdue.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAssembled and co-translated by Vietnamese poet and essayist Nguyen Ba Chung and acclaimed American poet Martha Collins, \u003ci\u003eDreaming the Mountain \u003c\/i\u003ereflects a lifetime of creation, crisis, and commitment. With poems presented on facing pages in Vietnamese and English, this volume includes the early imagism of Tu? S?’s Zen studies as a scholar and critic, midlife work that represents his attempted retreat from the devastation of war and subsequent years of imprisonment, and late, elliptical poems that give intensely lyrical expression to a lifetime of profound experience. From the “fleeting dream of red blood at dusk” to the quiet determination of one who sets out to “repaint the dawn,” these poems reflect the journey of an artist who speaks for his country, who captures its darkness and its light.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAt once personal and universal, coolly observant and deeply compassionate, the poems of Tu? S? bring singular attention to a fleeting, painfully beautiful world.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57312081150334,"sku":"NW9781639550180","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9781639550180.jpg?v=1778586379","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/en-usa\/products\/dreaming-the-mountain","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}