23 https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2005.0083 English eng Goldstein, Laurence Contributor <p><span style="color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-family: Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Goldstein examines Yusef Kamunyakaa's "Le Xuan, Beautiful Spring," which was also the given name for Madame Ngo Dinh Nhu, the sister-in-law of South Vietnam's president Ngo Dinh Diem. He claims that the poem is as orderly as a geometric theoem. Although Madame Nhu herself does not have a voice in the poem, the eidetic presence at the heart of this lyrics speaks as loudly as words or, say, the words placed in the mouth of her uneasy admirer have the logic of desire and the persuasiveness of a field worker reporting on the extremities of recent history</span><br></p> Johns Hopkins University Press Summer 2005 pdf ISSN 0161-2492 Literary criticism Madame Nhu, Woman and warrior: A Reading of "Le Xuan, Beautiful Spring" mixed material Johns Hopkins University Press