'Dear, Hanoi's city' - an anxiety that has followed Phan Vu for more than 40 years 3
On the evening of April 24, Phan Vu’s poetry collection `I Still Have You` was introduced to readers in the capital.
Through the video shown at the meeting, Phan Vu shared: `The phrase ‘I still have you’ in each paragraph are my loving memories of Hanoi that sometimes when I need refuge and comfort, I look for them.`
* Poet Phan Vu tells his memories of Hanoi
Poet Phan Vu shares about ‘Dear, Hanoi City’
Phan Vu wrote the first sentences of the song Dear, Hanoi Street in December 1972, when the US military bombed and destroyed the capital.
Director Dang Nhat Minh shared that previously, he and Phan Vu worked at Vietnam Feature Film Studio (Hanoi).
Director Dang Nhat Minh shared about the poet at the ceremony.
Having the same opinion, writer Hoang Quoc Hai said that the author included his life in Hanoi in the poem.
Part two of the collection is the poet’s typical works over the years.
His poetry also has a painterly quality.
Phan Vu, real name Tran Hong Hai, was born in 1926 in Hai Phong.
* Cam Van sings ‘Hey Hanoi city’
Cam Van sings ‘Hey Hanoi city’
