Echoes of an Elusive Heart - Vietnamese English Poems Love and Longing

Bilingual Vietnamese-English Poems of Love and LongingOriginally written in Vietnamese and poetically translated into English by the same author, Echo of an Elusive Heart is a bilingual collection of Vietnamese love poems exploring longing, desire, memory, separation, and the ache of an elusive heart.These are not literal, word-for-word translations. Each English poem was recreated as a genuine poem, seeking to preserve the meaning, emotion, imagery, rhythm, and soul of the original Vietnamese verses while allowing the English version to stand naturally as poetry in its own right.For readers who enjoy Vietnamese poetry, Vietnamese love poems, bilingual poetry, translated literature, romantic poetry, and poems of love and longing, this collection offers two languages and two poetic perspectives on the same emotions.Người đẹp nằm trong sáchTình nhân ẩn trong thơNên chỉ đành hai cáchĐọc sách với thẫn thờWithin books rest hidden beauties, Within poems lovers hide.Only two paths, just truly: Read both with a longing sigh.Read the Vietnamese original.Read the English poem.And discover what remains between the two.