Tuesday, June 19, 2007

News at Eleven: One day, to his [Nguyen Chi Thien's] surprise,

one of his angry jailers came storming towards him, waving a book in his face, 'Flowers of Hell.' It was a collection of Thien's poems, which would eventually appear in English, French, German, Dutch, Chinese, Spanish, and Korean. It would win awards while he was still in jail.

from Monsters and Critics.com: Vietnam poet Thien's prison years left "no time to love"

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