Poems from the Prison Diary of Ho Chi Minh

Poetry. Asian American Studies. Freely translated from the Chinese by Steve Bradbury, a professor at National Central University in Taiwan. Written during his incarceration by the Chinese in the 1940s, these poems -- at times witty, at other moments despairing -- chronicle Ho's prison life. "The flesh may be in prison / But the mind still has free rein"-from "Preamble."