THE WRITERS POST (ISSN: 1527-5467) the magazine of Literature & Literature-in-translation. VOLUME 7 NUMBER 2 JUL 2005

HOANG XUAN SON _______________________________ four poems by HOANG XUAN SON translated by the author Jar new people not a new job old job like a pot of slaked lime nobody uses its spreading stick to perforate the statue’s eyes with bulging side Cry consider that you are not crying cry up baby, cry ! o’ complicated life Alcohol it doesn’t look like sticks why to break down the whole bundle Thoughts wrest the iron head down making the pop-corns to be civilized HOANG XUAN SON The Writers Post the magazine of literature & literature-in-translation, founded 1999, based in the US. VOLUME 7 ISSUE 2 JULY 2005 Editorial note: Works published in this issue are simultaneously published in the printed Wordbridge magazine (ISSN: 1540-1723). Copyright © Hoang Xuan Son 2005. Nothing in this magazine may be downloaded, distributed, or reproduced without the permission of the author/ translator/ artist/ The Writers Post/ and Wordbridge magazine. Creating links to place The Writers Post or any of its pages within other framesets or in other documents is copyright violation, and is not permitted. Return to Contents HOME