ANH ĐỦ GIÀ ĐỂ KHÔNG CÒN YÊU NỮA

Nguyen Chi Trung’s poetry rises like a river in flood, from a deep unthinkable and unfathomable abyss, in Filomena Ciavarella’s words[iii]. The same fascination held by the Ganges, a symbol of the East, blending itself into Trung’s soul. The genesis of As I Step Down (henceforth, AISD), a poem of ten stanzas following the “Sixth-Eight” words metrical pattern, is closely and Romantically linked to that holy river: “I dreamed to come one time in my life to its border and to boatflow over it”[iv]. Like a vision in a dream, it all came true in winter 2015/16.