Established: August 2026
Vuong Thanh is the lyrical essence of an exiled citizen of Fayland, where the mortal world is merely a passing inn. His artistic works and perspectives on life are what he chooses to share with fellow spirits of present and future generations; his personal, physical, and familial details are mere distractions from his artistic contribution to the world.
Public disclosure or dissemination of his photographic portrait, actual likeness, physical address, phone number, birth date, legal name, age, or past worldly pursuits is strictly prohibited pursuant to applicable privacy laws and individual rights. Thank you for your courtesy, respect, and understanding.
I know that the truths expressed in my songs and essays in Tribunal of Clarity may challenge prevailing literary trends. As an Eastern-Avalonian poet and lord of Water-Moon World, I have neither the time nor the inclination to respond to criticism from uninitiated voices, biased poetry groups, or those who do not speak in the same frequency range. I declare what I conclude as truths—based on research, solid reasoning, and without biases. I do not care to convince anyone. Take it or leave it.
Many readers today object to lofty lyricism or mythic elevation, as if poetry must stubbornly cling to the gritty, mundane physical realities of daily life to be deemed “authentic.” Such a view betrays a profound blindness to the very history of human creation.
Look across time and space: Greek mythology, the celestial Tang poetry of Li Bai and the haunting, ethereal dreamscapes of Li Shangyin, the mythic epics of Tolkien, Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, the soaring divine visions of Michelangelo in the Vatican, the breathtaking realms of Japanese anime, and the ancient mythic origins of both Vietnam and Japan. What are all these if not humanity’s eternal, irrepressible desire to reach for Fayland?
To deny the timeless necessity of dream and Fayland poetry is simply ridiculous. We already endure enough exhaustion from the raw, unyielding physical realities of daily existence. Why must our poems mirror the tedious, mundane physical facts that are trendy today and forgotten tomorrow? Poetry is not a ledger of daily chores; it is the sanctuary of the soul, the sovereign bridge to the timeless.
To cut across the loud buzzing noise in this chaotic Western literary world to reach the lyrical kindred spirits out there in the world, I have given myself creative titles that reflect my work. Some critics, biased, prejudiced, envious, or prose-poetry advocates, may very likely throw at me such labels as pretentious. Let me answer to these critics here once and for all:
"If you guys can compose one-half, nay, even a quarter of the literary works that I have done with an acceptable level of lyrical proficiency in the multi-millennia and multicultural respected craft of rhythm and rhyme, as shown in my Achievements section, then I will consider that you have the basic qualification and we can start discussing the whats and whos of pretentiousness. Till then..."
I may have published various versions of poems, translations, and songs on other sites. Those on YouTube will contain the most up-to-date version in either the description or the pinned comment—superseding any earlier versions found in previous books.
🪶 The Trưng Sisters
🪶 The Buddha King — Trần Nhân Tông
🪶 Prince General Trần Hưng Đạo
🪶 The Invincible King of Strategies — Nguyễn Huệ
🪶 George Washington
🪶 The Maid of Orleans — Joan of Arc
🪶 Li Bai, the Exiled Immortal
🪶 Jane Austen — The Queen of World Literature
🪶 Leonardo da Vinci — The Renaissance Man
🪶 Greek Mythology
🪶 The Iliad & the Odyssey
🪶 The Lord of the Rings
🪶 Jane Austen's Novels
🪶 Shakespeare's Plays
🪶 The Story of Civilization
🪶 Gone With the Wind
🪶 Les Misérables
🪶 The Tale of Kiều — Soulistic Porting Edition
🪶 Lament Song of a Soldier's Wife — Soulistic Porting Edition
🪶 Anna Karenina
🪶 Don Quixote
🪶 Tam Quốc Chí | Romance of the Three Kingdoms
🪶 Hồng Lâu Mộng | Dream of the Red Mansion
🪶 King Arthur & the Round Table Legends
🪶 Jungle Stories
🪶 The Call of the Wild
🪶 Đại Đường Song Long Truyện
🪶 Tru Tiên
🪶 Foundation Trilogy
🪶 Anne of Green Gables
🪶 A Rose in Winter
🪶 Water-Moon Poetry & Verse-Story Operas
A Water‑Moon presentation is Vuong Thanh’s flexible method of carrying a poem into another language — sometimes through faithful lyrical translation, sometimes through soulistic adaptation. The structure may be preserved or reshaped as needed to elevate the poem’s spirit in its new form.