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300 Tang Poems

300 Tang Poems

Translated by Geoffrey Waters, Michael Farman and David Lunde

Introduction by Jerome P. Seaton

Published by: White Pine Press

Imprint: White Pine Press

370 Pages, 6.00 x 9.00 in

Paperback
9781935210269
Published: September 2011

$19.00

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"The road to Shu is hard, but harder still is to convey the spirit with which these poems were first written over a thousand years ago. And yet the translators have given us translations that feel alive, as if they were more like a dance between poet and translator, both of whom live on through the beauty of these poems. The night is young, and this book is full of music."Red Pine

Three Hundred Tang Poems includes great names like Li Bai, Du Fu, and Wang Wei, as well as a splendid sampling of the rest of poets who helped to make the Tang the golden age of Chinese poetry.

Geoffrey Waters has a PhD in Classic Chinese from Indiana University. His other books of translation include Broken Willow: The Complete Poems of Yu Xuanji and Three Elegies of Ch'u.

David Lunde is a poet and translator. His most recent books include: Blues for Port City, Heart Transplants & Other Misappropriations, Nightfishing in Great Sky River, Instead, and The Carving of Insects, Bian Zhilin's collected poems co-translated with Mary M.Y. Fung, which won the 2007 PEN USA Translation Award.

“The road to Shu is hard, but harder still is to convey the spirit with which these poems were first written over a thousand years ago. And yet Geoffrey Waters has done just that. Joined by his friends Michael Farman and David Lunde, he has given us translations that feel alive, as if they were more like a dance between poet and translator, both of whom live on through the beauty of these poems. The night is young, and this book is full of music.”

—Red Pine

300 Tang Poems

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