The surprise with female artist Hoang Cuc is poet Cuc

People's Artist Hoang Cuc at the launch of her epic poem 'Cuc' - Photo: T.DIEU

At the launching ceremony of the epic poem Cuc by People's Artist Hoang Cuc in Hanoi on the evening of June 2, many people expressed surprise at an artist named Hoang Cuc, a poet.

For a long time, the public has known Hoang Cuc as a beautiful and talented actress as well as a strong will to overcome illness, live optimistically and full of energy to contribute.

Some of the artist's Facebook friends recently learned that Hoang Cuc has been writing poetry and prose for a long time.

A few years ago, she debuted in the literary world with fourth prize in a short story contest on the theme of Vietnamese Villages in the Integration Era and several collections of poems published in spring newspapers.

The not-so-smooth epic of Hoang Cuc's life

Sharing at the launch of the epic poem, the "young" female poet - the main character - did not know what to say other than to express her heartfelt thanks for the great happiness she received from her friends today.

She admitted that her first work was just clumsy writing, but "it was the turbulent river of her life."

Poet Nguyen Quang Thieu also shared this. He said that the epic poem Cuc is her most honest voice, the most complete and perfect record of her life, the whole inner person that she had to live in silence for so long.

"That epic poem is a dream, a delirium, a fear, a despair...

But the poems gradually opened up all the darkness in her with the light deep in her soul.

And then in the end, readers see her soar in the beauty of life and the beauty of poetry," poet Nguyen Quang Thieu said about the epic poem Cuc.

After reading the last verse of the epic poem, he quietly called Hoang Cuc a poet, with verses full of sharing and haunting.

He said he had read many poems and he thought that Hoang Cuc had made her own path.

He thanked Hoang Cuc for bringing poetry a path, perhaps a very vague, very small path, but a new path for Vietnamese poetry.

The epic poem Cuc is like an autobiography in verse by Hoang Cuc - Photo archive

Big surprise about Hoang Cuc

For literary critic Do Anh Vu, the epic poem Cuc was a big surprise. It is rare to see an author in the modern Vietnamese poetry world whose first collection of poems is an epic poem.

Because a long poem requires a writing force, a force field, a story with countless details and events. Those details and events must be symbolized by poetic language.

Critic Pham Xuan Nguyen said he was not surprised that Hoang Cuc wrote poetry. Many years ago, poet Hoang Nhuan Cam had told him that Hoang Cuc wrote poetry and that her poetry was quite good.

But he was still surprised about Hoang Cuc when reading the epic poem Cuc - a narrative work in verse with skillful poetic art in many sections.

The epic poem 'Cuc' by artist Hoang Cuc - Photo: T.DIEU

Regarding the epic poem, according to Do Anh Vu, it can be considered an autobiography in verse by Hoang Cuc.

The author tells the reader many stories, feelings, and confides many thoughts, spread over a long period of time, from childhood, adolescence, to later years.

Cuc's poetic language is liberal, natural, and flexible in form. Sometimes it is free, sometimes it is seven-word verse, sometimes it is six-eight, sometimes it is five-word verse.

In any part of the epic poem, readers can easily find impressive verses, good stanzas, and touching verses.

For example, when the author writes about his mother:

No more mother's shadow on the empty porch

The whole yard is woven with yellow petals

The small alley moves and tilts the sunlight

The pair of doves also fly in the wind .

Source: https://tuoitre.vn/bat-ngo-voi-nu-nghe-si-hoang-cuc-la-thi-si-cuc-20240602215309261.htm