J. Do Vinh
CONTEMPORARY VIETNAMESE POETRY: ON THE PATH OF TRANSFORMATION
(A PORTRAIT OF VIETNAMESE LITERATURE “Poetry as a Window on History and Change in Southeast Asia” is the main topic
of a Panel at the 56th Conference of the Association for Asian Studies -- Sponsored by Council of Teachers of
Southeast Asian Languages, to be held in San Diego on March 4, 2004. In many respects, poetry is indeed linked
to history and change. History here must be understood in the broader context of linguistic, literary and
political developments. These are the primary elements that make up culture. When we speak of Vietnamese
