Hoa dia nguc nguyen chi thien
The poet, Nguyen Chi Thien, was arrested outside the gates and brought to the Hanoi Central Prion (Hanoi Hilton) and it was not known if he were alive or dead....
During the roughly fifteen years spent as a political prisoner in Vietnamese labor camps from 1960 to 1977, Nguyen Chi Thien composed hundreds of poems.
Nguyễn Chí Thiện
Vietnamese-American dissident, activist and poet
In this Vietnamese name, the surname is Nguyễn. In accordance with Vietnamese custom, this person should be referred to by the given name, Chí Thiện.
Nguyễn Chí Thiện (27 February 1939 – 2 October 2012) was a North Vietnamesedissident, activist and poet who spent a total of twenty-seven years as a political prisoner of the communist regimes of both North Vietnam and of post-1975 Vietnam,[1] before being released and allowed to join the large Overseas Vietnamese community in the United States.
Biography
Chí Thiện was educated in private academies and was a supporter of Viet Minh revolutionaries in his early life. In 1960, however, he challenged the official history of World War II – that the Soviet Unionhad defeated the Imperial Japanese Army in Manchukuo, ending the war – while teaching a high school history class.
Chí Thiện told the class that the United States def