Some of my poems in this book were selected from the originals, which were written in Vietnamese. They were translated into English by Mr. Huynh Sanh Thong (a Vietnamese scholar at Yale University), Dr. Ralph S. Carlson (an English Professor at Azusa Pacific University, Azusa, California), and Mr. Nguyen Ngoc Bich (Scholar, Virginia). Most of them were written directly in English in the mid 70’s, 80’s, 90’s and 00’s. One poem, which I wrote in English, was translated into German by Dr. T.L. Eichman (an English Professor at Montgomery College, Takoma Park, Maryland).