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About The Selected Poems Of Li Po
Product Description Li Po (A.D., 701-762) lived in T’ang Dynasty China, but his influence has spanned the centuries: the pure lyricism of his poems has awed readers in China and Japan for over a millennium, and through Ezra Pound’s translations, Li Po became central to the modernist revolution in the West. His work is suffused with Taoism and Ch’an (Zen) Buddhism, but these seem not so much spiritual influences as the inborn form of his life. There is a set-phrase in Chinese referring to the phenomenon of Li Po: “Winds of the immortals, bones of the Tao.” He moved through this world with an unearthly freedom from attachment, and at the same time belonged profoundly to the earth and its process of change. However ethereal in spirit, his poems remain grounded in the everyday experience we all share. He wrote 1200 years ago, half a world away, but in his poems we see our world transformed. Legendary friends in eighth-century T’ang China, Li Po and Tu Fu are traditionally celebrated as the two greatest poets in the Chinese canon. David Hinton’s translation of Li Po’s poems is no less an achievement than his critically acclaimed The Selected Poems of Tu Fu, also published by New Directions. By reflecting the ambiguity and density of the original, Hinton continues to create compelling English poems that alter our conception of Chinese poetry. Review 9/10 Goings-on After An Ancient Poem After An Ancient Poem After Climbing Pa-ling Mountain, In The West Hall Anchored Overnight At Niu-chu, Thinking Of Ancient Times At Chin-ling At Ching-men Ferry, A Farewell At Fang-ch'eng Monastery, Discussing Ch'an With Yuan-tan-ch' At Hsieh T'iao's House At Hsuan-chou, I Climb Hsieh T'aio's North Tower In Autumn At Lung-hsing Monastery, Chia And I Cut Branches At Sha-ch'iu, Farewell To Wei Pa Who's Leaving At Sha-sh'iu, Sent To Tu Fu At Yuan Tan-chi'iu's Mountain Home Autumn River Songs Avoiding Farewell In A Chin-ling Wineshop Before My Boat Enters Ch'u-t'ang Gorge And I Leave Eastern Ch'ang-kan Village Song Ch'ing P'ing Lyrics Ching-t'ing Mountain, Sitting Alone Clear Creek Chant Drinking Alone Drinking Alone Beneath The Moon Drinking Alone On A Spring Day Drinking In The Mountains With A Recluse Drinking With Shih Lang-chung, I Hear A Flute On Yellow Drunk On T'ung-kuan Mountain, A Quatrain Facing Wine Farewell To A Visitor Returning East Farewell To Han Shih-yu Who's Leaving For Huang-te Farewell To Yin Shu A Friend Stays The Night Frontier-mountain Moon Gazing At Crab-apple Mountain Gazing At The Lu Mountain Waterfall Gazing Into Antiquity At Su Terrace Gazing Into Antiquity In Yueh Going To Visit Tai-t'ien Mountains's Master Of The Way Heaven's-gate Mountain Hsiang-yang Songs Impromptu Chant In The Stone Gate Mountains, Gone Looking For Yuan Tan-ch'iu Jade-staircase Grievance Leaving K'uei-chou City Early Lines Three, Five, Seven Words Long Listening To A Monk's Ch'in Depths Listening To Lu Tzu-hsun Play The Ch'in On A Moonlit Night Looking For Yung, The Recluse Master Making My Way Toward Yeh-lang In Exile, I Remember Walking Mountain Dialogue Mourning Chao Mourning Old Chi, Hsuan-chou's Master Winemaster Night Thoughts At Tung-lin Monastery On Lu Mountain O-mei Mountain Moon On Autumn River At Clear Creek, Facing Wine In The Snowy On Autumn River, Along Po-ko Shores On Hsieh T'iao's Tower In Hsuan-chou: A Farewell Dinner On Hsin-p'ing Tower On Phoenix Tower In Chin-ling On Yellow-crane Tower, Farewell To Meng Hao-jan Who's Out Drinking On Dragon Mountain Seeing That White-haired Old Man Legend Describes In Country Sent To My Two Children In Sha-ch'iu Shang Mountain, Four-recluse Pass Something Said, Waking Drunk On A Spring Day Song Of The Merchant South Of The Yangtze, Thinking Of Spring Spending The Night Below Wu-sung Mountain, In Old Mrs. Spring Grievance Spring Thoughts Spur Of The Moment Starting Up Three Gorges A Summer Day In The Mountains Sunflight Chant
