The Selected Poems - Softcover

Hinton, David; Li, Bai; Li, Po

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ISBN 10: 0811213234 ISBN 13: 9780811213233

Verlag: NEW DIRECTIONS, 1996

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Gathers poems written by the eighth-century Chinese poet, and briefly discusses his life and influence on Asian poetry

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DAVID HINTON's original Selected Poems of Tu Fu was the first full-length verse translation of Tu Fu published in America. The author also of singular books of essays and poetry, Hinton has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship, numerous N.E.A. and N.E.H fellowships, both major awards given for poetry translation in the United States, and a lifetime achievement award by The American Academy of Arts and Letters.

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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.

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• Verlag: NEW DIRECTIONS
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1996
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0811213234
• ISBN 13: 9780811213233
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 134
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