KVT – HANOI RHAPSODIES
HANOI RHAPSODIES
BY SCOTT EZELL
CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN POETRY IN VIETNAM
A new book of poetry by poet, composer, musician and sometimes Hanoian, Scott Ezell has been released with excellent critical reviews
For poetry lovers, and espescially those who love the poetry that is Hanoi, Scott’s ‘Hanoi Rhapsodies’ can be picked up at the Bookworm for 200,000 VND.
A view of Hanoi that is distinctively dystopian and authentically visceral, while retaining a strong humane sensibility.
—Martin Alexander, Executive Editor, Asia Literary Review
These vivid poems by Scott Ezell give a sense of Hanoi as an Asian City of Dreadful Night, dense with temptation and lost hopes, in which this young American poet (to quote James Thompson) “writes in the dust” his “heart’s deep languor” in poems of sharp diction and rich imagery.—John Balaban, author of Remembering Heaven’s Face.
HANOI RHAPSODIES is a chapbook of love poems set in the industrial cityscape of contemporary Hanoi. This is the first published collection of poems on Vietnam by an American citizen who is neither a war veteran nor ethnically Vietnamese.
HANOI RHAPSODIES includes black and white photos of Hanoi by the author. This publication was partially funded by the US Embassy in Hanoi.
Excerpts from HANOI RHAPSODIES were published in the Asia Literary Review, Winter 2012, and may be viewed online.
Scott Ezell’s previous publications include PETROGLYPH AMERICANA (Empty Bowl Press, 2010), and SONGS FROM A YAHI BOW (Pleasure Boat Studio: A Literary Press, 2011).
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