{"product_id":"9781452099996","title":"The Soul of Poetry Inside Kim-Van-Kieu","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e    \u003ci\u003eKim-Van-Kieu\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e, for centuries, has been regarded by the Vietnamese as the most beautiful jewel in painting the sentimental tenderness of the human soul.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e     Edited in the early 1813’s,\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003ethis masterpiece of 3250 verses was structured in a particular form of prosody that has become since then a cherished anthem of Vietnamese poetry.  \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e      The story concerns a maiden endowed with mental and bodily graces; an elite who, placed between love and filial devotion, deliberately chose the harder way: she sold herself to save her father, a victim of an unjust calamity. And from that day on, she passed from one misfortune to another until she sank into the most abject depravity. But, like the lotus, after a long chain of stormy winds, she succeeded in elevating herself and preserving the pure perfume of her original soul.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e     \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eHomesickness seemed to carry away\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eHer soul toward the forlorn clouds of Tsin.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e“My poor old parents! Both now must be quite old!\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e“Since my departure, has their grievance\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e“Subsided any as time went by?\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e“So fast, more than ten years out of sight!\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e“If they still live, maybe their skin\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e“Has been wrinkled, and their hair has turned gray\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e“Like frost-covered as it had never been!\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e“And the old love! Regretful, I may say!”\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eLike the lotus torn off from its stem,\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThough their former binding had been broken,\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe feelings Kieu had conceived for Kim\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eSeemed to still have a slight venation.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eKim-Van-Kieu 1963 Edition, English translation by Professor Le-Xuan-Thuy, had given the Western readers a chance to taste the delights of a new style of poem-in-prose version of Vietnamese poetry into English. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e       Forty six years later came into light a fresher gem with a more inspired form, “\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Soul of Poetry inside Kim-Van-Kieu”\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e,\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003ea vibrant versification of Kim-Van-Kieu by Professor Le Xuan Thuy himself, well known online as international poet Hall-of-Fame \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThuy Lexuan, ASO\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"AuthorHouse","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47154976293104,"sku":"9781452099996","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781452099996_p0.jpg?v=1763842965","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781452099996","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}