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# The Secret of Hoa Sen

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### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Adjust yourself to this style and you will find lines like this: “…the purple summer bang lang flowers
  

*by S***N on Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 7 December 2014*

When we talk about poets writing from the heart, it’s because we feel their integrity. When I say that Que Mai’s writing hands you her heart and lets you hold it, still beating and bleeding, while she tells her stories, it’s because she keeps nothing back and she trusts us to attend.And you do have to attend, especially if you are coming to this with a Western ear, because the language is more musical, the metaphors more earthy, and the characters and messages more deceptively simple than one might expect.Read Que Mai’s history and you will see why this is. Born in North Vietnam just after the end of the war and at the beginning of the reunification that brought with it recrimination and huge social upheaval, Que Mai’s voice is an unfamiliar one because it is female, embedded in family and traditions, and uses the language of dislocated, traumatised, but gentle survivors clinging to their roots and sowing the seeds of new ones.Adjust yourself to this style and you will find lines like this:“…the purple summer bang lang flowers, the aromatic lotus budsall conspire to nomad me into the night markets of Quang Ba …”  Ha Noi“Vowels, consonantsengraved by the shaken rhythm of a naked heart,I touch the hair of sunrise,my lips the morning’s nightingale.”  Touching the Hair of SunriseThe ‘right’ word in Vietnamese does not always translate into an equally right word in English but instead  gives rise to an utterly unusual word that is perfect in its place and its old and new meanings.Or this:“Immense, immense the sound of your laughter and speech,tweeting your pouting voices.You are the adults, and I am the child.”  Speaking with My ChildrenThe undertow of rhythm here is not reflective of Western pounding bass, thudding feet, trains, or machinery, but the bells and chimes of Vietnamese music which must surely be the unconscious river that carries the language.My personal favourite is Quang Tri which begins:The mother runs towards us,the names of her children fill her eye sockets.She’s screaming “Where are my children?”It describes in minimalistic stanzas the lifetime impact on one woman of the battle at Quang Tri, one of the bloodiest of the US-Vietnam war.I was lucky to meet Que Mai during our course at Lancaster. I heard her read both in English and in Vietnamese and I learned new things about poetry and the value of difference. If you get a chance to hear her, do so. If not, read these works and think of bells.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Five Stars
  

*by K***O on Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 17 April 2016*

Beautifully written, transports you back to simpler times. Very elegant book! A must for the soul.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    The gentle lull of Nguyen Phan Que Mai’s native Viet Namese language could have been easily lost without a sensitive translation
  

*by M***T on Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 23 November 2014*

‘The Secret of Hoa Sen’ is a recent collection of poetry from the poet and novelist, Nguyen Phan Que Mai. Her poems are concerned with the human condition. She is an observer, but she observes through the eyes of the many:  ‘I mirror myself into your eyes’ is the opening line from one of the many poems. It encapsulates the acute sensitivity caught in her writing about the distress of others. This empathy and her ability to accept other’s perspectives continue throughout the pages.  She makes use of first, second and third person viewpoints, both singular and plural, in order to encompass all.  It is the face of personal sufferance alive in a world of oppression and natural disaster that she uncovers through her words.The images, Nguyen Phan Que Ma portray may appear as simply described but her sentiments potent.  For example, alluding to the garment worker of Bangladesh she writes, ‘… they had sewn the broken patches of their lives with the needles of their patience … into shirts that men in the West paid for with a peck of dirt.’  Nguyen Phan Que Mai is not hesitant at expressing anger at wrong-doing. However, and unusually, she does not voice vitriol towards the persecutor.  Her heart beats alongside the pulsing of other hearts, whatever their background.  She walks through their dark ‘forests’ and swims aside them in their rough seas.  Her insights, always sensitive to the oneness of human experience, often surfaces within the waves of her words.  In her poems, ‘Separated Worlds’ and  ‘Vietnam Veterans Memorial’, for example, Nguyen Phan Que Mai  emphasises how  a sense of loss and suffering is an universal emotion: the sadness of oppressor as well as that of the oppressed acknowledged  and heard with a gracious understanding. The gentle lull of Nguyen Phan Que Mai’s native Viet Namese language could have been easily lost without a sensitive translation. But her voice sings out sentient-full of colour, smell, taste and texture portraying nature and life in the faraway. These faraway places, however, are not portrayed as distant, or as being lands apart from us. They are the locations of the everyday in the everyplace. She writes as if those lands are our own homelands which are, ‘rocking us’ in their embrace. All humans are similar, she suggests, all live under the same ‘Rain of no nationality’.  Our own misfortunes are ‘Only an arm-span’ away.Nguyen Phan Que Mai’s own love of humanity emerges through the evocative lines of her poetry. She records ordinary people trying to survive the needless traumas encroaching upon  their daily lives. Her message is simple: care for each other. We are but one.

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