On the side of Hoang Lien mountain. Photo: Phuc Thanh (Sa Pa)

Just then, it has been ten years, recently he has 4 poetry collections released and now Hoang Lien's Endurance - the 5th collection of poems.

Nguyen Van Hoan's poetry collection Hoang Lien's Endurance includes 61 poems. This is an impressive collection of poems. Impressed by the poems written about the highlands of Lao Cai in the flow of emotions nurtured in a fragrant heart. Impressed by the topicality, civic responsibility, but still retains the sincerity, stable creative style, just like his personality. It is the miserably hard of the highlands after the cold season that to expose out a grim way, where people and things do not elude from the harsh reality. Those are the hardships and hardships, but the people and things in my village are still tenaciously clinging, still accepting hardships to survive, accepting to multiply.

One of the interesting things is that Nguyen Van Hoan's poetry is frugal, simplify the problem, go straight to the reader's reception. Reading is seeing the going, coming, feeling, revealing, instead of feel anxious with multi-layered meanings, with distant associations. The author has always gone into the problem need to write, stepping from one poem to another gently and elegantly, it is like a person entering a village leaving the gate of one neighbor's house at once entering the gate of another neighbor's house. It is from the feeling of a jubilantly renewed countryside: “… My hometown has just had a bountiful rice season/ Vegetable crop winter is bustling/ The cold at the end of the season for peaches orchids and buds/ The road back has just asphalt carpet happy spring ..."- My village waits for spring anxiously.

One of the strengths of Nguyen Van Hoan's poetry is the many details. This strength of his probably stems from the thoroughness of a teacher, the completeness and accuracy of a scientist. But, if only from being neat and accurate, poetry will lead to just assembling words, showing off details, showing off words, but it is difficult to become a poem. Nguyen Van Hoan has overcome the rigidity and narration that thematic writers often encounter. He used real feelings and emotions to experience his feelings, to generalize his image on the page, to show his topicality and high civic responsibility.

Faced with the days when the whole country struggled against the pandemic, he went straight to the point in a drastic way. But also in the midst of the Covid season, sympathizing with the person who is fighting with illness to regain his life, he again expressed sympathy, sharing in a very poetic way: "In the room with a slightly ajar window, under the trees / The falling dewdrops swaying the leaves / The quiet night hears every breath / The same heartbeat, the rhythm of life, the worries ..." - The innermost feelings of the Covid season.

When he stood in front of his homeland, he ordered himself: "And I don't want to be an illusory glory land / I don't want to be a barren land / Falling in love with my name is "land" / Is it fun to lie still in vain now? ... ”- Word of the earth.

That's it, the poetry of course needs "clouds, wind, moon, flowers, snow, mountains, rivers...", but poetry also needs an order of the heart and the results of the execution of that command.

Any poets (including me) are often very passive in creativity when encountering situations, beauties, things that need to be praised or expressed immediately, poets often receive empathize and save in the brain, then spend a lot of time brooding strugglin untill uttering rhymes. But with Nguyen Van Hoan, it is different, he is very initiative in nurturing emotions, feelings, aspire, and expressions. Therefore, whenever he goes to any area, or before any event that needs to be confessed, he always expresses his immediate feelings, which are poetic and poetic scenes, seriously about the value of life. This can be a personality but it can also be a style, a stable, reliable, and a quite distinct style of composition, the result of a whole process of receiving his knowledge and training away.

Such as, the narrative inspiration throughout the poems in Hoang Lien Endurance. The narrative before the scene. The narrative in front of life. The narrative before life experience, before the vitality of all things, through poetry exudes the beauty of the human soul, the beauty of majestic nature. Nguyen Van Hoan's poetry is like his personality. In life, he is a cautious person, take my happiness, man happiness, wholeheartedly for his work, wholeheartedly for his friends, so is his poetry, careful but still excited, not noisy to brag, talk all problems very clear, Not burdened with structure, philosophy, or innovating poetry in a sophisticated and mysterious way but still very poetic, through poetry he can easily feel the breath of today's life.