Poems from the Prison Diary of Ho Chi Minh

Poetry. Asian American Studies. Freely translated from the Chinese by Steve Bradbury, a professor at National Central University in Taiwan. Written during his incarceration by the Chinese in the 1940s, these poems — at times witty, at other moments despairing — chronicle Ho's prison life. "The flesh may be in prison / But the mind still has free rein"-from "Preamble."

• Author
• Hồ Chí Minh, Steven Bradbury

• Format
• paperback

• Pages
• 33

• Publisher
• Tinfish Press

• Language
• english

• ISBN
• 9780971219878

• Genres
• poetry, history, china

• Release date
• 2004