"Ho Chi Minh and the Party Song" - an epic poem about the Man and the Party

The work was published by the Information and Communications Publishing House in the first quarter of 2025, including 6,526 six-eight verses, more than 1,000 notes for those who need to look up, 586 pages thick, 16x24cm in size, hard cover, beautifully presented. As Professor Dr. Dam Duc Vuong shared: "This is a collection of lyrical and philosophical poems that I wrote after many years of researching and writing books about Uncle Ho."

Having been a worker, a soldier, and then trained at prestigious schools at home and abroad, then working at the Central Party History Research Department, and then being assigned the important position of Deputy Director of the Ho Chi Minh Institute and Party leaders, Prof. Dr. Dam Duc Vuong always has a burning passion for scientific research and a passion for writing books about President Ho Chi Minh. He has many works such as "The process of forming Ho Chi Minh's patriotic ideology", "Ho Chi Minh and the issue of training cadres", "Ho Chi Minh training cadres and valuing talents", "Historical marks of Ho Chi Minh and the Party he founded"... In addition, he also has many works written with colleagues such as "President Ho Chi Minh - biography and career", "Uncle Ho's journey to save the country", "Uncle Ho in the hearts of diplomats "...

Not only writing books, poet Dam Duc Vuong also composes poetry, has published 5 collections of lyrical and philosophical poems. In his old age, he still longs to write an epic poem about Uncle Ho and the Party - a work that is both historical in depth and lyrical. Right at the beginning of the book, the author quotes Uncle Ho in the poem "We should learn our history" written in 1942: "Our people must know our history/ Our history teaches us the glorious stories of our ancestors...". Before Uncle Ho's teachings, poet Dam Duc Vuong exclaimed: "His teachings are as beautiful as flowers/ Children and grandchildren remember to learn together.../ A nation with the will should/ Build the country on the foundation of its ancestors".

The epic poem opens with the tragic image of the birth of the boy Nguyen Sinh Cung in a country that was destroyed. With a simple yet emotional poetic style, the author recreates the social context: "Western guns rained down on the homeland / The mournful cries of the long night...". Then came the turning point in 1911, when the young man Nguyen Tat Thanh left to find a way to save the country. The work records important milestones such as the event of reading "Lenin's Theses" in 1920, founding the Vietnam Revolutionary Youth Association, writing "The Revolutionary Path" and moving towards founding the Communist Party of Vietnam on February 3, 1930...

A strong emotional part of the work lies in the chapter about the August Revolution and the 1945 "Declaration of Independence": "The heroic declaration of independence / Our Vietnam is Uncle Ho Chi Minh ...". The pages do not avoid the difficult historical period when the country first gained independence. The collection of poems also devotes many passages to the period of resistance against the US, from the rain of bombs in the North to the heroic spirit of the entire nation: "One will, one heart / Spreading our arms to embrace the steadfast mountains and rivers...".

Prof. Dr. Dam Duc Vuong shared: “I have written many scientific documents and books about President Ho Chi Minh. With all my understanding, respect and gratitude to beloved Uncle Ho, I wrote "Ho Chi Minh and the Party Song". This is a collection of lyrical and philosophical poems. Lyrical poems are poems about people's feelings for each other and people's feelings for their country and homeland. Philosophical poems are scientific poems, accurately describing the names of people, organizations, places, and events taking place in a certain time and space. Philosophical poems are selective of their readers. I may be the first person to write a biography of President Ho Chi Minh and the history of the Communist Party of Vietnam in the six-eight verse form and philosophical poems”.

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