Thanh Thảo (poet)

He became famous for his long antiwar poem A Soldier Speaks of His Generation, which was sent directly from the heat of battle to his hometown newspaper in the North.

He is a member of the Vietnamese Writers Association and poetry committee and president of its branch in Quảng Ngãi Province.

Commenting on 12+3[2] Paul Hoover said: The poetry of Thanh Thao deals beautifully in the mystery of presence and absence, of past and present: "I come again / to the well / its perfectly rounded sky / and the tree's oblique shadow / like my mother's shape."

He writes with great intensity and longing about his experience of childhood, the war with the United States, and the passing of time.

We are always getting lost, and poetry, like love, is a light in that darkness.Poetry of Thanh Thảo has been appeared in many magazines and anthologies in Vietnamese and other languages such as Russian, French, English and Spanish.