"These sixty-one quatrains and T'ang poems, composed during Ho's incarceration by the Chinese, reveal the political legend as a poet-philosopher in the great Asian tradition. They are presented here with images of contemporary Viet Nam by MAGNUM photographer Larry Towell.".

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Title: The Prison Poems of Ho Chi Minh
Publisher: Cormorant
Publication Date: 1992
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0920953867
ISBN 13: 9780920953860
Binding: Soft cover
Edition: 1st Edition
Condition: New
Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
Signed: Signed by Illustrator(s)

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Poetry. Asian American Studies. Freely translated from the Chinese by Steve Bradbury, a professor at National Central University in Taiwan. Written during his incarceration by the Chinese in the 1940s, these poems -- at times witty, at other moments despairing -- chronicle Ho's prison life. The flesh may be in prison / But the mind still has free rein-from Preamble.

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A photographer, poet, filmmaker and musician, Larry Towell has travelled across the globe documenting the struggles of the world?s most dispossessed. As Canada?s most decorated photojournalist, he is the only Canadian member of the prestigious Magnum Photos agency, founded in 1947 by Robert Capa, Henri Cartier-Bresson, David Seymour and George Rodger. He is author of fourteen books, plus music projects and films. Magazine publications include: The New York Times Magazine, Esquire, LIFE Magazine, Elle, Rolling Stone, Geo, Stern and Vanity Fair. Larry is also a gifted musician and song writer. Purchase most of Larry?s new and out-of-print books and music projects directly from Larry?s General Store where he lives with his wife Ann and sharecrops a seventy-five-acre farm recently converted to ponds, prairie tall grass and natural habitat. All works are signed by the author. BIO Larry Towell was born in rural Ontario, Canada, in 1953. A stint of volunteer work in Calcutta in 1976 provoked him to begin to photograph and write about power and landlessness. In the 1980?s he documented the Nicaraguan Contra war and the relatives of the disappeared in Guatemala. In 1996, he completed a ten-year reportage on El Salvador which was followed by two books on the Palestinians. His book The World from My Front Porch, a collection of photographs of his family?s life in southern Ontario was published in 2006. His fascination with landlessness led him to the Mennonite migrant workers of Mexico, an eleven-year project completed in 2000 and re-published in 2022. Afghanistan, a moving and in-depth look at a country affected by conflict on a daily basis was published in 2014, and The History War (Ukraine) in 2024. The documentary film The Man I Left Behind will be released in 2024.