‘The door beyond heaven’ by poet Dang Thi Thanh Huong

Practice poem The door to the other side of the sky is the 9th collection of poems by poet Dang Thi Thanh Huong. Her eight previously published poetry collections are: Love Fairy, Version, Night Watch, Afternoons of rain, Lace snails, Cold tea, Woman playing sharp knife, You have come into this life.

Dang Thi Thanh Huong is one of the faces of female poetry who have left a special mark, having attracted attention on contemporary poetry and literature. A poetic face with unique creations, creating her own style. Speak like GS. Hoang Ngoc Hien: “The Nguyen Du School of Literature has dedicated to the modern poetic life many excellent female poets such as Lam Thi My Da, Phan Thi Thanh Nhan, Le Thi May, Thu Nguyet, Nguyen Thi Hong Ngat.. These famous female poets have created a special face for modern poetry. But it was not until we discovered Dang Thi Thanh Huong that we felt our mission was honored. Dang Thi Thanh Huong’s poetry is unique, profound, disruptive and rich in images, creating a new aesthetic that has never been seen in modern Vietnamese female poetry.

Poet Dang Thi Thanh Huong said that this book of poems she wrote very quickly, only a month after returning from the US to Vietnam. The door to the other side of the sky Includes 90 poems selected from 300 new poems written by Dang Thi Thanh Huong. The poem is divided into three parts: Women’s dreams, Golden sunshine in another direction, Doors beyond the sky.

“Part 1 and part 2 are like diary pages about the life of a woman who has gone through all the joys and sorrows of the world, aspirations, convictions about suffering and happiness. Part 3 opens the poet himself and all of us to another realm. Where we have never been before, but then everyone has to go and stop at the last leg. That place – The other side of the sky. Poetry, for readers, is the feeling and sharing, and for the poet, it is the experience of the writer’s soul, “poet Dang Thi Thanh Huong shared.

The main theme of Dang Thi Thanh Huong’s poetry is writing about a woman’s love with brokenness, loss, misfortune, pain, but full of energy and faith in the future ahead. An ego that always yearns to love and be loved, to love to the fullest, to love to the end. Then suddenly, she realized that she had passed the age of 40, at the age when a woman should have settled down, lived happily and happily with her husband and children. For her, that is too far away. The woman has passed the age of 40, her face is worn out, exhausted, her hair is dry because of many failed dating. Her eyes wandered to find a mirror to look at, then she was startled to realize that all was in the past.

One day 3 years ago, when at the peak of her talent and work, Dang Thi Thanh Huong stopped to go to America to live with her daughter and granddaughter. Reading her poetry, we have somewhat imagined this time when she lived in a foreign land. That mood shows throughout The door to the other side of the sky.

Poet Nguyen Quyen commented, with a collection of poems The door to the other side of the sky, Dang Thi Thanh Huong once again shed her clothes with her love of poetry. “Amidst poetry in chaos by views and likes, The door to the other side of the sky appear. The heart of an expatriate woman and men is no longer a target, but only a remembrance, the verbs have turned inward, the word love has been tinged with evil. It was there, in a battlefield where love was thought to be just a vast memory, Dang Thi Thanh Huong made language wake up once again, sucking up the marrow of time, removing the curtain. illusions of memory to once again pour out words with love of poetry”, said poet Nguyen Quyen.

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