Dreaming the Mountain Sỹ Tuệ
The North American debut of Tuệ Sỹ--poet, monk, scholar, dissident, and one of the great cultural figures of modern Vietnam. Arguably the most important Zen master in Vietnam today, Sỹ is a preeminent…
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The North American debut of Tuệ Sỹ--poet, monk, scholar, dissident, and one of the great cultural figures of modern Vietnam. Arguably the most important Zen master in Vietnam today, Sỹ is a preeminent scholar of world philosophy, the survivor of three prison sentences and one death sentence, and a witness to the tumult, tragedy, and resilience of his country over the last century. In addition to being one of Vietnam's cultural heroes and most celebrated minds, he is also one of its finest living poets--and a full-length translation of his work into English is long overdue. Assembled by the esteemed translator Nguyen Ba Chung and the acclaimed poet Martha Collins, Dreaming the Mountain reflects a lifetime of creation, crisis, and commitment. It includes the early imagism of Sỹ's Zen studies as a scholar and critic, the midlife work that represents his attempted