Staunin Ma Lane (Chinese, English, Paperback)

Staunin Ma Lane isn't intended to be a comprehensive tour of classical [Chinese] poetry, though it does contain specimens of many of the major genres and styles, and it may serve as a --first primer. Note that the poetry is in the Scots: the English versions are there to help the non-Scots speaker. It has been my aim to make poems in Scots: if you expect to --find dictionary definitions of Chinese words in my translations, you will be disappointed. That sort of drably mechanical 'accuracy' does not make poetry, and a poem that doesn't move the reader is like a joke that isn't funny. In the translation of poetry, there are many, many more ways of being wrong than of being right, and I do not claim that my versions are in any way de--finitive or better than anyone else's: I do, however, want to say to the reader, "Deek whit the Mither Tongue can dae: gin it can dae this, whit'll it no can dae?" (Look what our mother tongue can do: if it can do this, what will it not do?), and I would urge readers inclined toward translation to do it for themselves, whatever their mother tongue might be.

General

Imprint:	Shearsman Books
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	March 2016
Translators:	Brian Holton
Dimensions:	203 x 203 x 9mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	148
ISBN-13:	978-1-84861-466-6
Languages:	Chinese • English
Categories:	Books Promotions
LSN:	1-84861-466-7
Barcode:	9781848614666

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