New edition of complete poetry of Nguyen Chi Thien from the East Coast USA Vietnamese Publishers Consortium and the publisher Nguyen Ngoc Bich. Publishers address: 2607 Military Road, Arlington, Virginia, 22207. Telephone: 703-525-4538 Fax: 703-719-5764. Mr. Bich contributed to one of the first publications of the poetry of Nguyen Chi Thien, which was smuggled through the British Embassy in Hanoi in 1979 at the cost of twelve more years of imprisonment in the Gulag of the communist prisons of Vietnam, during which time the poet nearly died of starvation and the cruelties of solitary confinement for eight of the twelve years. This early publication of the work of Nguyen Chi Thien was twenty of the poems set to music by Pham Duy in the trilingual edition of Nguc Ca, Chants de Prison, Prison Songs, which was published by Que Me in 1982. It includes English versions for singing of the Prison Songs by Nguyen Ngoc Bich, the current publisher of Hoa Dia Nguc --over 700 poems composed by the author during his imprisonments between 1957 and 1991 in North Vietnam. Article by Jean Libby, editor, Viet-Am Review   more »