Songs of Love, Moon, and Wind

Songs of Love, Moon, and Wind PDF Author: Eliot Weinberger
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811218368
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 100

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"Nothing stands still in this poetry: the wind blows the trees, the lake water ripples and the ever-present road runs in and out of the hills."--American Poetry Review

Songs of Love, Moon, and Wind

Songs of Love, Moon, and Wind PDF Author: Eliot Weinberger
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811218368
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 100

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"Nothing stands still in this poetry: the wind blows the trees, the lake water ripples and the ever-present road runs in and out of the hills."--American Poetry Review

Songs of Love, Moon, & Wind

Songs of Love, Moon, & Wind PDF Author:
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ISBN: 9780811218368
Category : Chinese poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 90

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"This exquisite gift book offers a wide sampling of Chinese verse, from the first century to our own time, beginning with the lyric poetry of Tu Fu, moving to the folk songs of the Six Dynasties Period, on to the Sung Dynasty, and to the present. Also represented are some of the best-known women of Chinese poetry, including Li Ching-chao and Chu Shu-chen. These simple, accessible but profound poems come through to us with a breathtaking immediacy in Kenneth Rexroth's English versions -- a wonderful gift for any lover of poetry."--Publisher's website.

Songs of Love, Moon, & Wind: Poems from the Chinese

Songs of Love, Moon, & Wind: Poems from the Chinese PDF Author: Eliot Weinberger
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 0811224058
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 100

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“Nothing stands still in this poetry: the wind blows the trees, the lake water ripples and the ever-present road runs in and out of the hills.”—American Poetry Review Moss covered paths between scarlet peonies, Pale jade mountains fill your rustic windows. I envy you, drunk with flowers, Butterflies swirling in your dreams. —Ch’ien Ch’i This exquisite gift book offers a wide sampling of Chinese verse, from the first century to our own time, beginning with the lyric poetry of Tu Fu, moving to the folk songs of the Six Dynasties Period, on to the Sung Dynasty, and to the present. Also represented are some of the best-known women of Chinese poetry, including Li Ching-chao and Chu Shu-chen. These simple, accessible but profound poems come through to us with a breathtaking immediacy in Kenneth Rexroth’s English versions—a wonderful gift for any lover of poetry.

One Hundred Poems from the Chinese

One Hundred Poems from the Chinese PDF Author: Kenneth Rexroth
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 0811223868
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 164

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The lyrical world of Chinese poetry in faithful translations by Kenneth Rexroth. The lyric poetry of Tu Fu ranks with the greatest in all world literature. Across the centuries—Tu Fu lived in the T'ang Dynasty (731-770)—his poems come through to us with an immediacy that is breathtaking in Kenneth Rexroth's English versions. They are as simple as they are profound, as delicate as they are beautiful. Thirty-five poems by Tu Fu make up the first part of this volume. The translator then moves on to the Sung Dynasty (10th-12th centuries) to give us a number of poets of that period, much of whose work was not previously available in English. Mei Yao Ch'en, Su Tung P'o, Lu Yu, Chu Hsi, Hsu Chao, and the poetesses Li Ch'iang Chao and Chu Shu Chen. There is a general introduction, biographical and explanatory notes on the poets and poems, and a bibliography of other translations of Chinese poetry.

Women Poets of China

Women Poets of China PDF Author: Kenneth Rexroth
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811208215
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 166

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"The poetry proves again that stereotypes mislead. Chinese verse is supposedly cool and distant, detached and dispassionate. The opposite seems true; poets are exalted or downcast, drunk with wine or, in the case of women, frankly sensuous....Nothing stands still in this poetry: the wind blows the trees, the lake water ripples and the ever-present road runs in and out of the hills." --America

Love and the Turning Year

Love and the Turning Year PDF Author: Kenneth Rexroth
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811201797
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 164

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Book Description
An assemblage of delicate Chinese verse which delicately explore the worlds of love, nature, and meditation.

One Hundred Poems from the Japanese

One Hundred Poems from the Japanese PDF Author: Kenneth Rexroth
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811201810
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 186

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A collection of Japanese poems accompanied by their English translations.

Chinese Love Poetry

Chinese Love Poetry PDF Author: Jane Portal
Publisher: British Museum Press
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 104

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Book Description
A selection of 40 classical and contemporary love poems, illustrated with original brushwork calligraphy and scenes from rarely exhibited paintings and prints from the British Museum.

New Songs from a Jade Terrace

New Songs from a Jade Terrace PDF Author: Anne Birrell
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000583074
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 420

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Book Description
This book, first published in 1982, was the first translation of the Chinese classic Yü-t-‘ai hsin-yung – the unique anthology of love poems, compiled in AD 545. This traces the development of love poetry from the second century BC to its full flowering in the fifth and sixth centuries AD. Dr Birrell’s incisive introductory essay provides a concise survey of the historical and literary setting to the poems and explains the conventions governing courtly love poetry. In particular, the reader’s attention is drawn to the many and varied artistic uses of imagery in the poems. Major poets are noted for their artistic achievement and for their contribution to the development of the genre. Dr Birrell also supplies a valuable section of notes on the poems to guide the reader through unfamiliar historical events, legends, anecdotes and famous places and people, and there is a similar section of notes on the poets offering biographical details.

Treasury of Chinese Love Poems

Treasury of Chinese Love Poems PDF Author: Xiaolong Qiu
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 200

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Qiu Xiaolong is extravagantly qualified for translating these poems, having as a citizen of China won prizes for his own poetry and for translating T.S. Eliot and other English and American poets into Chinese and, more recently, as a citizen of the United States, won prizes for his own poetry and fiction in English. To my mind, the Changgan Song in this collection rivals Ezra Pound's justly famous, loosely translated version, The River Merchant's Wife. These renderings have a limpidity of the language and metaphor and a subtle rhythm, and Qiu has a poet's sixth sense for when (occasionally) to lift the line with a less direct and more evocative word; we are thus rescued from the flatness of some translations of early Chinese poetry. This is a generous book and a very welcome addition to the poetry of love and longing from our Significant Stranger, the Chinese nation. --Mona Van Duyn.