Songbirds of the Nine Rivers
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Finalist for the 2024 California Book Award in Poetry. Part historical, part geographical, part philosophical lyric poems inspired by Vietnam's Mekong Delta and poems of the Tang and Lê dynasties.
In his afterword to Songbirds of the Nine Rivers, Joseph Zaccardi recounts how, during his time as a Navy corpsman in the Vietnam War, he found refuge in a volume of ancient Chinese and Vietnamese poetry. His study, now lifelong, has borne fruit in this present volume, the ancients at his shoulder. At once a scholarly work, an homage, and a striking volume of new poems—not translations, not "versions"— this book provides readers with a multifaceted lens, forward, backward, yet always present—and always, even in grief, exultant.
