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Friday, June 24, 2022

Another song from Saigon before 1975

This is the regal Thái Thanh singing Phạm Duy. It is a magnificent poem. Phạm Duy speaks of a towering and elongated pain. He's speaking of the war. The adjectives are deliberately unusual, but this is a poet speaking, and it's an unusual time. The trees on Duy Tân are described as long, and not tall. It would never end.









2 comments:

Anonymous said...

It kills me to listen to this.

Linh Dinh said...

Just hearing it in my head kills me...