Poetry Collection Blooming Another Dragonfly Wing: Revival in National Colors

Poet Tran Duc Tin

Poet Tran Duc Tin

Poet Tran Duc Tin (pen name Khet) has just published his 5th collection of poems, titled No thêm mot cánh dragonfly. On the first page with the poem Dem xu nay, I see dragonfly larvae swimming in the muddy night, inspiring many mythological stories that overcome times of chaos, war, separation, and exile, still looking towards the light and hope:

"Generations have gone through thousands of nights

can not penetrate it

Which faces of grandparents, parents, me

and my child

hanging on every street light".

Dragonflies are one of the insects with many colors, in which the typical colors include: Blue, yellow, red, green. Perhaps because of the love from the rice fields stretching as far as the eye can see in the Mekong Delta to the immense forests of the Northwest to the green grasslands of the mountains and rivers, "dragonfly wings" carry poems full of worries about natural disasters, crop failures, and migrations like yesterday.

Talking about this collection of poems, Tran Duc Tin shared that after going through a serious accident, he had to stay in the hospital for a long time to fight for his life, there was a poem written by phone while receiving antibiotics. Poet Tran Duc Tin said: “I always think that literature is a path, not a destination, as long as I walk on that path feeling happy, joyful, living true to myself and, moreover, bringing something to others, no matter how little, is enough. Luckily, after the disaster, I found love, the thoughts that had reached their deadline also died and the buds bloomed again, allowing me to find "newly hatched dragonfly wings". If I let it exist, I can still breathe. I am passionate about poetry, about the Vietnamese language”:

“I will hide this rain

please don't light fire

after the storm of life

The grass will turn green again. (tomorrow)

With free verse and a youthful writing style, No thêm một cánh đúng không chuang chuang takes readers to “all the beautiful colors” in the Dao people’s coming-of-age ceremony, the Tay people’s Pay Tài (visiting the wife’s parents) custom, the Mong people’s love songs on the gray rock land, the 12 rhythms of Hue’s folk songs, or the swaying letters from the West carrying vọng cổ verses throughout the S-shape.

Khet is a young poet who has emerged in recent years. This poet from Ca Mau has published 5 poetry collections and won many awards such as the Young Writer Award 2021 - Ho Chi Minh City Writers Association, the Young Writer Award of the Vietnam Writers Association 2022 with the poetry collection Nine Golden Skin Branches, First Prize in the New Rhythm Poetry Contest 2023 of the Thai Nguyen Provincial Literature and Arts Association, Second Prize in the Good Poetry Contest 2023 organized by Ho Chi Minh City Literature and Arts Magazine,...

The poetry collection "Blooming One More Dragonfly Wing" licensed by the Writers Association Publishing House, includes 3 parts: About the end of poetry and people; Love in the shape of a broken pyramid; Giving birth to each other will certainly not disappoint readers and make them feel moved by the words with strong national colors appearing between the verses in this new poetry collection!

Hoang Thi Hien

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