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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 the war.

The young American poet walked up to farmers, fishermen, seamstresses, and monks and said, "Sing me your favorite poem," and they did. "Folk poetry is so much a part of everybody s life, my request didn t seem like such a strange proposition," Balaban writes.

The resulting collection the first in any Western -language became a...

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"Sometimes books really do change the world... This one will set in motion a project that may transform Vietnamese culture.""Utne Reader"

Ho Xuan Huongwhose name translates as "Spring Essence"is one of the most important and popular poets in Vietnam. A concubine, she became renowned for her poetic skills, writing subtly risque poems which used double entendre and sexual innuendo as a vehicle for social, religious, and political commentary.

The publication of "Spring Essence" is a major historical and cultural event. It features a "tri-graphic"...