… of Vietnam from 1958 to 1978. [The poet won the 1985 Poetry International prize on the basis of this book.] "..... … to apologize for the strident anti-communist tone of this poetry, which was, after all, nurtured in Vietnamese prisons … observation of prison life, and above all, the survival of poetry in Nguyên Chí Thiên. .....""He tells us that he is …