“'Phan Nhiên Hạo’s poem is counter song, testing and contradicting its own opening and closing statement about paper bells making no sound. In Vietnamese, one can hear the muted music of tapping consonants, echoing vowels, and resounding tones, the way, for instance, “tôi” ["I"] off-rhymes with “tối” ["night"]. I’ve tried to make a poem in English that rings freely in harmony and carries across this voice singing about dark times, illuminating a life in exile." Hai-Dang Phan on "Paper Bells" |
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"Write Where We Are Now" "British poet Carol Ann Duffy has launched an international poetry project with major names including Imtiaz Dharker, Roger McGough and Ian McMillan, as a response to the coronavirus pandemic....'We need the voice of poetry in times of change and world-grief. A poem only seeks to add to the world and now seems the time to give,' said Duffy." viaTHE GUARDIAN |
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