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During the Vietnam war, John Balaban traveled the Vietnamese countryside alone, taping, transcribing, and translating oral folk poems known as "ca dao." No one

Texts of Vietnamese folk poetry deal with love, loss, marriage, and the beauty of nature

Presents nearly fifty short Vietnamese lyrical poems known as "ca dao," collected from villagers near the end of the Vietnam War by American poet and translator

A bilingual anthology of lyric poem-songs from Vietnam's oral folk tradition, this revised edition includes new poems and an eloquent Introduction explicating p