Crystal - E-book - ePub

This book is a crossover that includes poetry, mini stories and essays, plus some brush paintings. In terms of content, the writer dares to question philosophy, science and poetry technique with counter arguments directed to Shakespeare, Pascal, Kipling, Sartre, Camus, Hawking, William Carlos Williams... In terms of form, the author defies barriers between poetic art and philosophy, creates a new, minimalist genre of the short story called "mini story" that is concise in nature, lying between the classic short story and 'flash fiction', with a more simplified content than in a short story but still carrying the full of richness and significance of the classical genre, and finally making a bold and proven argument that a substantial part of Vietnamese and international poetry represents artistic sublimation, containing material that, though erotic yet is not of a pornographic nature as seen in everyday life.