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Thanh-Thanh is Mr. Nhuận Xuân Lê 's (poetry) pen name . His other pseudonyms are: Kiều-Ngọc (prose), Nguyệt-Cầm (dramas), Người Thơ (essays), Tú Ngông (satires), etc. He leads "Xây-Dựng" (Construction), 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. In the United States, he has just published "Cơn Ác-Mộng" (The Nightmare,) the poems he composed while imprisoned by the communists for more than 12 years. Serving the True, the Good, and the Beautiful, he has just published "Cảnh-Sát-Hóa, Quốc-Sách Yểu-Tử của Việt-Nam Cộng-Hòa" (The Police Plan, an aborted national policy of the Republic of Vietnam) which joins his previous book of memoirs "Về Vùng Chiến-Tuyến" (Back to the Front Line) to reveal the untold causes and potential lessons of the US-backed South Vietnam's fall. He began to write poetry in English after his resettlement in the States in 1992 and has had a lot of pieces published in several nationwide anthologies. He is a member of P.E.N. International (through PEN Center USA) and a lifetime member of the International Society of Poets. You are invited to read "This Land of Promises," a selection of his English poems, and "Poems by Vietnamese Refugees," a collection of his English verse translated from the work of various renowned Vietnamese poets abroad.
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