New Life in The United States
Owing to the Orderly Departure Program, "Chương Trình H.O.", Lê Xuân Nhuận came to the United States, together with his wife and two unmarried daughters (he has six children) on January 17, 1992. He started his new life by going to US schools, writing memoirs, composing poetry in English, translating Vietnamese poems into English verse, contributing his writings to some 30 US and UK magazines and anthologies, and publishing books. While researching political and religious matters, he found out that the Marian Apparitions in La Vang, Quảng Trị, Vietnam, was a mere fabrication (based on various writings by well-known Vietnamese priests, bishops, and Catholic scholars); this was later confirmed by Pope John Paul II on the "Bicentenary of Our Lady's Apparitions in La Vang in 1998" (It is worth noting that Mr. Le seemed to derive a particular satisfaction out of his claim that the Marian Apparitions in La Vang were mere fabrications. And this based solely on his skewed reading of an article in L'Osservatore Romano, wherein it was stated that no written documents survived regarding the apparitions). He became an American citizen in 1997 and is a member of International PEN (PEN Center USA). His other pseudonyms include Kiều Ngọc (prose), Nguyệt Cầm (drama), Người Thơ (critique), Tú Ngông (satire), Đức Cố Lê (research). In the US, his has contributed poems to 30+ anthologies of English poetry, and some English magazines - His new works have recently been published:
- Lê Xuân Nhuận. Về Vùng Chiến-Tuyến. Westminster, California: Văn Nghệ, 1996. (Return to the Front Line.) ISBN 1-886566-15-1
- Thanh-Thanh. Cơn Ác-Mộng. Fairfield, California: Xây-Dựng, 1998. (The Nightmare.) ISBN 978-0-9665293-0-2 - LCCN: 98-90684
- Lê Xuân Nhuận. Cảnh-Sát-Hoá, Quốc-Sách Yẻu-Tử của Việt-Nam Cộng-Hòa. San Jose, California: Xây-Dựng, 2002. (The Police Plan: An R-VN's Aborted National Policy.) ISBN 978-0-9665293-7-1 - LCCN: 2001097126
- Thanh-Thanh Poems by Selected Vietnamese. Alameda, California: Xây-Dựng, 2005. (100+ verse translations by Thanh-Thanh from originals by 55 8authors living in USA, Canada, Australia, Belgium, France, Germany, Norway, and Vietnam.) ISBN 978-0-9763498-1-5 - LCCN: 2005906908
- Lê Xuân Nhuận. Việt-Nam Cộng-Hoà - Quốc-Sách Yểu-Tử: Cảnh-Sát-Hoá. Alameda, California: Xây-Dựng, 2006. (The Republic of Vietnam - An Aborted National Policy: The Police Plan.) ISBN 978-0-9665293-8-8 - LCCN: 2003106623
- Lê Xuân Nhuận. Biến-Loạn Miền Trung. Alameda, California: Xây-Dựng, 2012. (Memoirs: Disturbances in Central Vietnam.) ISBN 978-0-9763498-5-3 - LCCN: 2012900099
- Thanh-Thanh. Thơ & Người Thơ. Alameda, California: Xây-Dựng, 2012. (Bảy Mươi Năm Làm Thơ: Seventy Years Writing Poetry.) ISBN 978-0-9763498-6-0 - LCCN: 2012908820
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