ABOUT
THANH-THANH
Thanh-Thanh is Mr. Nhuận Xuân Lê 's (poetry) pen name.
His other pseudonyms are: Kiều-Ngọc (prose), Nguyệt-Cầm (drama), Người Thơ
(critique), Tú Ngông (satire), Lê Chân-Nhân & Đức-Cố Lê (research), etc.
He leads
“Xây-Dựng”
(Constructiveness), the literary group that
was depicted, owing to its numerous works by various authors, as one of the main
branches of the Vietnamese Secular Cultural Tree diagram exhibited at the unique
pre-1975 National Cultural Festival in Saigon, capital of the former Republic of
Vietnam.
Thanh-Thanh (Nhuan
Xuan Le) began to write poetry in English after his resettlement as a
political refugee in the
States in 1992.
In the United States, he published
“Cơn
Ác-Mộng”
(The Nightmare, 1998) the poems he composed while
imprisoned by the communists for more than 12 years.
Serving the True, the Good, and the Beautiful, he published
“Cảnh-Sát-Hóa,
Quốc-Sách Yểu-Tử của Việt-Nam Cộng-Ḥa””
(The Police Plan, an aborted national policy of the
Republic of Vietnam, 2002), reprinted as
“Việt-Nam
Cộng-Ḥa -
Cảnh-Sát-Hóa: Quốc-Sách Yểu-Tử,
2005”
which joins his previous book of memoirs
“Về
Vùng Chiến-Tuyến”
(Return to the Front Line, 1996), and recently
“Biến-Loạn
Miền Trung””(Rebellion
from Central Vietnam,
2012)
to reveal more untold causes and potential lessons of the US-backed South
Vietnam's fall.
He also reprinted his favorite poetic pieces in
“Thơ
Người Thơ” -
“Bảy
Mươi Năm Làm Thơ”
(Selected Poems by Thanh-Thanh
- 70 Years Writing Poetry, 2012).
About English Poetry, he has published:
“Poems
by Selected Vietnamese, 2005”
“Vietnamese
Choice Poems,
2013”
and
“Dragon
& Fairy in Poetry, 2021.”
He has had a lot of pieces printed in about 50
anthologies of English poetry published in the USA and the United Kingdom:
Wind in the Night Sky
(Owings Mills, Maryland: National Library of Poetry, 1993);
Best New Poems
(Parkwille, Maryland: Poets' Guild, 1994);
American Poetry Annual
(Baltimore, Maryland: The Amherst Society, 1994);
Outstanding Poets of 1994
(Owings Mills, Maryland: NLP, 1994);
The Sound of Poetry
(Owings Mills, Maryland: NLP, 1994);
Best Poems of 1995
(Owings Mills, Maryland: NLP, 1995);
Who's Who in New Poets
(New York, New York: Who's Who in New Poets, 1996);
Best Poems of the '90s
(Owings Mills, Maryland: NLP, 1996);
Best Poems of 1997
(Owings Mills, Maryland: NLP, 1997);
Outstanding Poets of 1998
(Owings Mills, Maryland: NLP,
1998);
A Celebration of Poets
(Owings Mills, Maryland: International Library of Poetry, 1998);
A Treasury of Great Poems
(Ashland, Oregon: FPS, 2000);
Letters From the Soul
(Owings Mills, Maryland: ILP, 2001);
Poetry Magazine
(New Jersey: New 1 Publications, March and May 2001);
The Best Poems and Poets of 2001
(Owings Mills, Maryland: ILP, 2001);
New Millennium Poetry
(Talent, Oregon: Famous Poets Society, 2002);
The Best Poems and Poets of 2002
(Owings Mills, Maryland: ILP, 2002);
Theatre of the Mind
(London: Noble House, 2003);
The Colors of Life
(Owings Mills, Maryland: ILP, 2003);
Colours of the Heart
(London: Noble House, 2004);
Eternal Portraits
(Owings Mills, Maryland: ILP, 2004);
Our 100 Most Famous Poets - the Brief Chronicles of Our Time
(Talent, Oregon: FPS, 2004);
Great Poems of the Western World
(Talent, Oregon: Famous Poets Society, 2005);
Flowers of Love
(Sacramento, California: Vietnamese Poetry Society, 1998-2004);
Labours of Love
(London: Noble House, 2005);
WordBridge
(Miami, Florida: The Writers Post, 2002-2005);
A Treasury of American Poetry III
(Baltimore, Maryland: League of American Poets, 2007);
Oakland Out Loud
(Oakland, California: PEN Center USA - PEN 2007);
Expressions II
(Baltimore, Maryland: League of American Poets, 2007);
Expressions III
(Baltimore, Maryland: LAP, 2007);
Splash of Verse
(Worthington, West Virginia: The Poet Sanctuary, 2007);
Forever Spoken
(Owings Mills, Maryland: ILP, 2007;
The Best Poems & Poets of 2007
(Owings Mills, Maryland: ILP, 2008);
Immortal Verses
(Talent, Oregon: Famous Poets Society, 2008);
Great Poems of the Western World
(Talent, Oregon: Famous Poets Society, 2009);
Our Great Modern Poets
(Talent, Oregon: Famous Poets Society, 2011);
Today's Best Poets
(Ashland, Oregon: Poetryfest Press, 2013);
Our Best Contemporary Poets
(Ashland, Oregon: Poetryfest Press, 2014);
Fightin' Words
(PEN Oakland Publication, 2014);
On the Wings of Pegasus
(Betty Cummins Starr-Joyal, 2014);
Flights of Angels
(Asland, Oregon: Poetryfest Press, 2015);
Poetry Over the Rainbow
(Betty Cummins Starr-Joyal, 2015);
Trumpets to Heaven
(Betty Cummins Starr-Joyal, 2016);
Today's Great Poets
(Betty Cummins Starr-Joyal, 2016);
On the Wings of Angels
(Betty Cummins Starr-Joyal, 2016);
Angels for the Ages
(Asland, Oregon: Poetryfest Press, 2017);
America's Great Living Poets
(Betty Cummins Starr-Joyal, 2017);
Angels of Heaven and Earth
(Betty Cummins Starr-Joyal, 2017);
Awsome Poems of the Western World
(Betty Cummins Starr-Joyal, 2018);
Angels of the Morning
(Betty Cummins Starr-Joyal. 2018);
Angels of Poetry
(Betty Cummins Starr-Joyal, 2018);
etc...
Thanh-Thanh (Nhuan
Xuan Le) is a member of P.E.N. International (through
PEN America); and a lifetime
member, in the Hall of Fame,
of the
International Society of Poets.
His book
“This
Land of Promises”
is a selection of his English poems (not published yet); and
“Poems by Select Vietnamese,”
“Vietnamese
Choice Poems” together with
“Dragon
& Fairy in Poetry”
are collections of
various Thanh-Thanh's English verse translations of the works by 138 Vietnamese
poets and poetesses living in the USA, Australia, Belgium, Canada, Finland,
France, Germany, Norway, and Vietnam.
“Vietnamese
Choice Poems,”
published by
Xlibris (ISBN 978-1-4931-2196-0)
in 2013 was
chosen by Amazon Editors as one of their Favorite Books of the Year,
Best Books of 2014.
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