Lady Borton

From the deeply personal to the dramatically political, this unprecedented anthology yields singular insight into the lives of women whose voices have been consigned to history’s margins. This collection ranges from the earliest oral poetry and the first written Buddhist spiritual verse to the angry poems of rebellious youth in Viet Nam today.

This moving account presents the Viet Nam War from the view of the peasants underneath the B-52s and Agent Orange-stripped trees. Without calling attention to herself, Borton -- the first westerner to live in a Vietnamese village since the war’s end -- suffuses her account with a deep respect for all those we left behind.

By now, Vietnamese Boat People are leaders in their host countries. Each year, many of them visit Viet Nam, something they once never imagined possible. Sensing the Enemy gives us their story as the Boat People chose to tell it at the time they left Viet Nam